Owen Good
@owengood.bsky.social
Translator of Hungarian poetry and prose (Krisztina Tóth, Zsolt Láng, & Pál Závada). Editor at Hungarian Literature Online.
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Owen Good
@owengood.bsky.social
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George Szirtes: I saw myself as a Budapest tenement block in an English suburb | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online
George Szirtes, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary English literature and a committed translator of ...
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In March we got the rare chance to sit down with the poet, writer and literary translator George Szirtes in his own home for an interview...
We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!
We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!
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It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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October 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
If you haven't yet, do explore the massive László Krasznahorkai archive on HLO.hu!
I translated this dark-fantastic interview with #Krasznahorkai there in 2021:
– Have you ever met a wolf?
– Not alive.
– Dead?
– Dead, yes.
– Does that mean a stuffed wolf?
– One stuffed, one run over, one killed.
I translated this dark-fantastic interview with #Krasznahorkai there in 2021:
– Have you ever met a wolf?
– Not alive.
– Dead?
– Dead, yes.
– Does that mean a stuffed wolf?
– One stuffed, one run over, one killed.
October 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If you haven't yet, do explore the massive László Krasznahorkai archive on HLO.hu!
I translated this dark-fantastic interview with #Krasznahorkai there in 2021:
– Have you ever met a wolf?
– Not alive.
– Dead?
– Dead, yes.
– Does that mean a stuffed wolf?
– One stuffed, one run over, one killed.
I translated this dark-fantastic interview with #Krasznahorkai there in 2021:
– Have you ever met a wolf?
– Not alive.
– Dead?
– Dead, yes.
– Does that mean a stuffed wolf?
– One stuffed, one run over, one killed.
It's open call season at HLO! We're accepting submissions on all things Hungarian: hlo.hu/news/send-us...
Send Us Your Writing – Open Call | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online
It's open call season again at HLO, and we want to read your writings and translations!
hlo.hu
July 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It's open call season at HLO! We're accepting submissions on all things Hungarian: hlo.hu/news/send-us...
In March we got the rare chance to sit down with the poet, writer and literary translator George Szirtes in his own home for an interview...
We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!
We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!
George Szirtes: I saw myself as a Budapest tenement block in an English suburb | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online
George Szirtes, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary English literature and a committed translator of ...
hlo.hu
June 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In March we got the rare chance to sit down with the poet, writer and literary translator George Szirtes in his own home for an interview...
We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!
We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!
If you're looking for poetry about Budapest, about post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe—or about illness, dissent, the city as a psychic space—go find a copy of this book.
Gábor Schein: I cannot separate the outside from the inside | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online
We're proud to share an HLO interview with Gábor Schein, author of Beyond the Cordons, a selection of over twenty-five years of his poetry, and translators Ottilie Mulzet and Erika Mihálycsa.
hlo.hu
May 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you're looking for poetry about Budapest, about post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe—or about illness, dissent, the city as a psychic space—go find a copy of this book.
Exciting interview in the works! Three of us from Hungarian Lit Online made a flying visit to Norwich to conduct a life interview with writer and translator George Szirtes...
And here's a sneak-peek, where he talks about his relationship with language and identity, as a Hungarian-born British poet.
And here's a sneak-peek, where he talks about his relationship with language and identity, as a Hungarian-born British poet.
George Szirtes: I saw myself as a Budapest tenement block in an English suburb – teaser from a forthcoming interview | hlo.hu - Hungarian...
"When people ask me what I am, as they often do, a “guest” is the answer I've come up with," – says George Szirtes, the British poet and literary translator of Hungarian origin, referring to...
hlo.hu
April 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Exciting interview in the works! Three of us from Hungarian Lit Online made a flying visit to Norwich to conduct a life interview with writer and translator George Szirtes...
And here's a sneak-peek, where he talks about his relationship with language and identity, as a Hungarian-born British poet.
And here's a sneak-peek, where he talks about his relationship with language and identity, as a Hungarian-born British poet.
Woop! We made a huge interview w. Hungarian historical writer Pál Závada.
Here he talks Flaubert and Sebald, Esterházy and Nádas, & his latest novel which follows a docu film crew in the politically charged 80s, as they investigate the Kulak show trials of the 50s that resulted in an execution.
Here he talks Flaubert and Sebald, Esterházy and Nádas, & his latest novel which follows a docu film crew in the politically charged 80s, as they investigate the Kulak show trials of the 50s that resulted in an execution.
Pál Závada: I have to turn to fiction | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online
Hungarian author Pál Závada talks about the literary influences that shaped him — from Sebald and Flaubert to Esterházy and Nádas — the unexpected success of his 1997 debut novel Jadviga párnája (Jadv...
hlo.hu
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Woop! We made a huge interview w. Hungarian historical writer Pál Závada.
Here he talks Flaubert and Sebald, Esterházy and Nádas, & his latest novel which follows a docu film crew in the politically charged 80s, as they investigate the Kulak show trials of the 50s that resulted in an execution.
Here he talks Flaubert and Sebald, Esterházy and Nádas, & his latest novel which follows a docu film crew in the politically charged 80s, as they investigate the Kulak show trials of the 50s that resulted in an execution.