Lit in Translation

Ádám Bodor

Born 1936 · Hungary, Romania

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Libri 2020 · Shortlist

    Sehol

    Title translated by AI:“Nowhere”

    Ádám Bodor · 83 when first published

    Short stories · 150 pages

    AI-generated summary:Seven absurd stories set on the edges of the map, by a marshy river, on a meadow, in a prison or a real Romanian village, of funerals, betrayals and escapes.

  • In English

    Aegon 2012 · Shortlist

    The Birds of Verhovina

    Verhovina madarai

    Ádám Bodor · 75 when first published

    Novel · 255 pages · Speculative

    AI-generated summary:In Verhovina, a remote place where the train runs irregularly and the timetable has been abolished, Brigadier Korkodus's foster son waits at the run-down station for a barefoot boy sent over from a reformatory.