Born 1959 · Hungary
Aegon 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“To the End of Our Lives”
Ferenc Barnás · 60 when first published
Novel · 456 pages · Family, Love
AI-generated summary:A historian of philosophy, recovered from a breakdown, falls in love with a much younger woman, then learns too late of his mother's death and begins to suspect it was not cancer.
Also: Libri 2020 shortlist
Aegon 2013 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Another Death”
Ferenc Barnás · 53 when first published
Novel · 298 pages · Crime, Politics
AI-generated summary:A forty-year-old Budapest man, until recently a university lecturer, collapses mentally and financially from one day to the next, while elsewhere an insomniac waiter in Germany takes his own life.
Aegon 2007 · Shortlist
A kilencedik
Ferenc Barnás · 47 when first published
Novel · 176 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:In 1968, in a quiet village outside Budapest, a boy born ninth into a large, poor and devoutly Catholic family grows up under a tyrannical father and a Communist state, knowing hunger and fear.