Born 1966 · Hungary
Libri 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Bullet That Killed Pushkin”
Gergely Péterfy · 53 when first published
Novel · 406 pages · Family, Love, Historical
AI-generated summary:An unusual love story that reaches back through twentieth-century Eastern Europe, with its passions, hatreds, friendships and betrayals, in a small town on the Danube.
Aegon 2015 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Stuffed Barbarian”
Gergely Péterfy · 48 when first published
Novel · 447 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1796, while the writer Ferenc Kazinczy is serving a prison sentence in Bohemia, his friend Angelo Soliman dies in Vienna, and his body is stuffed and put on display in a museum on the emperor's orders.
Aegon 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Death in Buda”
Gergely Péterfy · 42 when first published
Novel · Historical, War
AI-generated summary:Michele d'Aste, a young Neapolitan baron who is looking for death, follows the armies of the Holy League from the siege of Vienna to the siege of Ottoman-held Buda in 1686.