Born 1974 · Hungary
Libri 2022 · Shortlist
Mondatok a csodálkozásról
Edina Szvoren · 47 when first published
Short stories · 264 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Very short notes and seven longer stories about a horse's panic, the blind riding a chairlift, a video player brought from beyond the Iron Curtain, and a mother irritated by her son's hair.
Libri 2019 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“My Poems”
Edina Szvoren · 44 when first published
Short stories · 212 pages
AI-generated summary:Thirteen stories whose narrators live very different lives in the same urban world, glimpsed like the separate flats of the high-rise across the street.
Also: Aegon 2019 shortlist
Aegon 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Country's Best Hangman”
Edina Szvoren · 41 when first published
Short stories · 186 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Stories of strange, close relationships: the country's best hangman moves in next door, a mother may see her child only at feeding times, someone lives with a shop dummy.
Also: Libri 2016 shortlist
Aegon 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“There Is None, Nor Should There Be”
Edina Szvoren · 38 when first published
Short stories · 158 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Stories centred on the family, the main arena and model of our lives, uncovering with dry humour the dramas that play out beneath the small events of everyday relationships.
Aegon 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“On First-Name Terms”
Edina Szvoren · 36 when first published
Short stories · 245 pages
AI-generated summary:A debut collection of stories that show the nauseating complexity of human relationships, each creating an unmistakable atmosphere in every sentence.