Dezső Tandori

Dezső Tandori (8 December 1938 – 13 February 2019) was a Hungarian writer, poet and literary translator.

While publishing poetry and novels mainly under his own name, he also wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym Nat Roid.

During his early career, he became acquainted with Ágnes Nemes Nagy, then a young grammar school teacher, and her literary circle (including Miklós Mészöly, Géta Ottlik, and Iván Mándy).

His first two books of poetry, A Fragment to Hamlet (1968) and Cleansing of a Found Object (1973) are regarded as landmarks in Hungarian literature.

In his later years he translated seven novels of Virginia Woolf and wrote a book of personal essays on the project: Burnt-out Cells (2008).