Lit in Translation

György Dragomán

Born 1973 · Hungary

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Aegon 2019 · Shortlist

    Rendszerújra

    Title translated by AI:“System Restart”

    György Dragomán · 45 when first published

    Short stories · 260 pages · Speculative

    AI-generated summary:Stories from fifteen years about systems, political, natural or technical, real or imagined, and about the chances people find to break out of them.

    Also: Libri 2019 shortlist

  • No English yet

    Aegon 2016 · Shortlist

    Oroszlánkórus

    Title translated by AI:“Lion Choir”

    György Dragomán · 42 when first published

    Short stories · 250 pages

    AI-generated summary:Stories in which music, from jazz and heavy metal to a Viennese waltz, helps people overcome fear and grief, bear the pain of love and longing, or find a home in a foreign country.

    Also: Libri 2016 shortlist

  • In English

    Aegon 2015 · Shortlist

    The Bone Fire

    Máglya

    György Dragomán · 41 when first published

    Novel · 480 pages · Coming of age, Family, Politics

    AI-generated summary:After the dictator has been shot, thirteen-year-old Emma, who has lost her home and her parents, is taken in by a grandmother she has never known, in a country where the unburied past is still painfully alive.