Szilárd Borbély

Szilard Borbély was born in Fehérgyarmat, in the most northeastern corner of Hungary, in 1964. He made his poetic debut in 1988 and published roughly a dozen volumes of poetry and prose. Borbély was a professor in Debrecen and translated numerous poems, including works by Monika Rinck, Robert Gernhardt and Durs Grünbein, from German and English. His debut novel Nincstelenek – Már elment a Mesijás? established him as one of the most important authors of contemporary Hungarian literature. Borbély died by suicide in February 2014.