András Petőcz

He was the chief editor for over two years of the art periodical Jelenlét (Presence),[1] which was published by the Faculty of Humanities at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in Budapest, and soon became a significant forum on contemporary literature.

After obtaining his degree he was an assistant at Gorkii State Library for a short time, and then worked as an editor for longer and shorter periods on literary magazines.

He always has a dichotomy, either wanting to pay respects to classicism or to modernity, conservatism or avant-garde, sonnet or free verse, tradition or the new.

The 30 years of the novel brings to life what happened from the early sixties to the nineties, how people lived in Central Europe and refers to the change of system in Hungary in 1989.

[8] Károly D. Balla writes about A születésnap: “The author, who is himself on the threshold of dreams, redeems historical and family tragedies with angelic good humour, and what might make an adult grumpy and ill is rendered tolerable by the imagination of childhood memories and the genuineness of the hope in them.”[9] In this novel, an eight-year-old girl learns to lie in order to survive.

In 1996 Petőcz was awarded the Attila József Prize by the cultural part of the Hungarian government[12] as an official recognition of his work to date.

In 2008 he received the Sándor Márai Prize[14] awarded by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, for his novel Idegenek (Strangers).

From the IWP invitation, Petőcz contributed to several readings, including in New York, San Francisco and Portland, Maine.

Similarly, he spent a month in 2001 at the Yaddo Art Center in Saratoga Springs, New York,[18] where, among others, he met Rick Moody, the American prose writer.

In 2002[18] he moved to Lille, France, for four years[12] with his family and contributed to the work of the French journal and literary circle Hauteurs.

In August 2007, he was invited to Switzerland by the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation and spent three weeks at the Château de Lavigny International Writers' Residence.

Starting in October 2022 he spent one months at Residências Internacionais de Escrita Fundação Dom Luís I,[25] and worked on his new novel, and talked about his poetry.

The visual-visible verbal poetry is the most basic form of communication, using the elements of the spoken language, letters, words and other written marks and also examines their changes and developments and visualsurplus in meaning (...) This anthology takes note of such publications as the 1967 An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (edited by Emmett Williams), the Anthologie Vizuele Poezie of 1975 published in the Netherlands, the Konkretna, vizuelna is signalisticka poezija published in the same year in Yugoslavia"[29] ^ b: A tenger dícsérete was also published in English as In Praise of the Sea (1999, ISBN 963-9101-51-6), translated by Jascha Kessler, István Totfalusi, and Jason Vincz ^ c: The Robert Graves Prize is named after the English writer Robert Graves, who is very renowned in Hungary.