Szilárd Borbély

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Szilárd József Borbély
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Born(1963-11-01)1 November 1963
Fehérgyarmat, Hungary
Died19 February 2014(2014-02-19) (aged 51)
Debrecen, Hungary
OccupationAcademic, writer, poet.

Szilárd József Borbély (1 November 1963 – 19 February 2014) was a Hungarian academic, writer and poet.[1][2] The Poetry Foundation identifies him as "one of the most important poets to emerge in post-1989 Hungary", who utilised several writing genres and predominantly dealt with subjects like grief, memory and trauma.[3] Borbély suffered from "post-traumatic depression"[why?] and committed suicide on 19 February 2014.[4][5]

Notable works[]

Poetry[]

  • Adatok (1988)
  • Berlin-Hamlet (2017) translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Novels[]

  • The dispossessed (Hungarian: "Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás?") (2013)

References[]

  1. ^ "Szilárd Borbély Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin". Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  2. ^ "Foreign Rights - The Dispossessed Novel - Szilárd Borbély". Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  3. ^ "Szilárd Borbély : The Poetry Foundation". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  4. ^ Rakusa, Ilma (25 February 2014). "«Es sei zu Ende»". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Szilárd Borbély "Die Mittellosen": Wir gehen und schweigen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 7 October 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

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