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György Spiró
Hungarian dramatist, novelist and essayist

György Spiró

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Hungarian dramatist, novelist and essayist
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Place of birth
Budapest, Hungary
Age
78 years
Education
Eötvös Loránd University
(1965-1970)
Awards
Kossuth Prize
(2006)
Laureate of the Hungarian Republic
(1998)
Alföld Prize
(2007)
György Spiró
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György (George) Spiró (born April 4, 1946 in Budapest) is a dramatist, novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

György Spiró

The son of an engineer from Miskolc in eastern Hungary, he graduated in Hungarian and Slavic literature from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 1970, and completed additional studies in journalism and sociology. His earlier career was spent in radio journalism.More recently, in addition to his writing, he has been employed as associate professor at the Department of World Literature and currently at the Institute of Art Theory and Media Studies at ELTE.

His plays have won numerous awards, including several for best Hungarian drama of the year. A few of them are available in English translation. The best known one is Chickenhead (1986), an earthy and bitter drama of a young delinquent's disillusionment at the longed-for reunion with his drunken father.Dramatic Exchange described it as "widely considered to be the most important Hungarian play of the last 20 years."

His avant-garde style, depicting coarse language and characters outside the pale of respectability, often dismayed more traditional Hungarian critics.

His book, Az Ikszek (The X-s), which appeared in 1981, is a historical novel about the National Theatre of Poland in the first years of the 19thcentury, with Wojciech Bogusławski as the main character. The novel is about the fight of the artists against censorship.

He published in 2005 an 800-page novel, Fogság (Captivity). Set in the Roman Empire in the time of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, it follows the experiences of a Jewish wanderer named Uri. Spiró's earlier works eschewed Jewish themes, but in this work he returns to his ancestral roots.

In 2007, he published the rewritten Messiások (Messiahs), another historical novel, for which he was awarded the Angelus Award. His most recent novel is the hugely successful Tavaszi tárlat (Spring exhibition, 2010), describing the early days of the Kádár regime.

Books in English

  • Captivity (2015)
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