Very excited—my translation of Other Death by Ferenc Barnás is out today! This was for me a sonorous novel, about an art teacher's rebuilding after mental collapse in '90s postsocialist Budapest. Yet another book on Seagull's superb, ever-expanding Hungarian List, ed. by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social

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...

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.

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!

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.

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.