János Térey
Year of birth: 1970
Place of birth: Debrecen, Hungary
lives in Budapest
International Writers' and Translators' House
15. June 2010 -
16. July 2010
Tyrone Guthrie Centre
01. August 2010 -
31. August 2010
Budapest: Magvető, 2004
Ultra
Budapest: Magvető, 2006
KaltWasserKult
Stuttgart: merz & solitude, 2007
Asztalizene
Budapest: Magvető, 2008
Hagen, ou l’Hymne á la haine
Editions théâtrales culturesfrance, 2008
Jeremiás avagy Isten hidege
Budapest: Magvető, 2009
Térey János, Anja Utler – Dichterpaare – Gedichte Zweisprachig Budapest-Wien: Kortina, 2009
János Térey, born 1970 in Debrecen/Hungary, studied hungarian literature and linguistics at the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. He lives as poet, playwright and translator in Budapest. János Térey is one of the most important voices in the contemporary hungarian literature. He is a poet, who lives and works in the modernity as well as in literary tradition.
Since 1991 his poems have been published in numerous collections: in 2004, the theatre tetralogy “A Nibelung lakópark” was published, in 2006 the collection“Ultra”, in 2007 followed “KaltWasserKult” (poems in German). In 2006 he received a scholarship by the Akademie Solitude in Stuttgart/Germany. He was awarded “The Guild of Theatre Editors' Prize” for Best Drama several time, also in 2009. In 2007 he was awarded the Látó Prize.
The HALMA grant was made possible by funding of the European Commission.
