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Szilárd József Borbély
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", related to the murder of his mother during a burglary in 2000 and the subsequent breakdown and death of his father, who had also been attacked.[4][5][6] Borbély committed suicide on 19 February 2014.[7][8]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

  • Adatok (1988)
  • Berlin-Hamlet (2003). Trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2016)
  • Halotti pompa (first edition, 2004; second edition, 2006; third edition, 2014)
  • A testhez (2010)
  • Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Princeton University Press, 2019). Selections from Halotti pompa and A testhez.
  • Bukolikatájban (posthumous, 2022). In a Bucolic Land, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2022)

Novels

  • Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás? (2013). The Dispossessed, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Harper Perennial, 2016)

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. ^ Foundation, Poetry (2022-04-14). "Review: In a Bucolic Land". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  5. ^ Szirtes, George (2016-11-25). "Deprivation: A Childhood in 1960s Hungary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  6. ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  7. ^ Rakusa, Ilma (25 February 2014). "«Es sei zu Ende»". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Szilárd Borbély "Die Mittellosen": Wir gehen und schweigen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 7 October 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2021.