Zoltán Danyi
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Zoltán Danyi
Zoltán Danyi, born in 1972 in Senta, Yugoslavia, studied Philosophy and Literature in Novi Sad and Szeged. In 2003, he made his debut as a poet, publishing poems and short stories. He completed a PhD in 2008 on the Hungarian writer Béla Hamvas, and went on to work as an editor and schoolteacher. His first novel, A dögeltakarító, won the Miklós Mészöly Prize. Danyi, a member of the Hungarian minority in Serbia, now works as a rose grower in Senta.
Zoltán Danyi, born in 1972 in Senta, Yugoslavia, studied Philosophy and Literature in Novi Sad and Szeged. In 2003, he made his debut as a poet, publishing poems and short stories. He completed a PhD in 2008 on the Hungarian writer Béla Hamvas, and went on to work as an editor and schoolteacher. His first novel, A dögeltakarító, won the Miklós Mészöly Prize. Danyi, a member of the Hungarian minority in Serbia, now works as a rose grower in Senta.
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Year of Publication: 2021
Zoltán DanyiYear of Publication: 2021
About the Roses
»I stood by the window and waited for the sun to set, because that was the rule, and if I didn’t want something bad to happen, I had to wait until it had set.«
With this sentence it begins, the life story of a narrator who, having suffered an existential crisis, has returned to his Serbian hometown – from the Belgian North Sea coast to the Tisza river,...
Year of Publication: 2018
Zoltán DanyiYear of Publication: 2018
The Carcass Remover
They had heard about five dead foxes, lying in the road by the Hungarian-Serbian border. But when the men from the disposal unit arrive, there are dozens of carcasses, dogs and cats, too – shot, it seems, by border guards to pass the time. The war in the Balkans is long over, and yet incidents like these haul the narrator back into his past.
Sitting in the garden...