Born 1946 · Hungary
Libri 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Stone Frog”
György Spiró · 71 when first published
Novel · 246 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Kálmánka, born in a village that is on no map, wanders half the world and the Hungarys of several eras, is decorated without being brave, and spends time in a Budapest asylum.
Aegon 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Selected Essays 1979–2016”
György Spiró · 70 when first published
Nonfiction · 384 pages
AI-generated summary:Essays from nearly four decades on writers and works, historical movements and Slavic culture, from the provinces of the ancient world to the closed world of Central Europe.
Aegon 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Spring Exhibition”
György Spiró · 64 when first published
Novel · 285 pages · Historical, Politics, Satire
AI-generated summary:A man who checks into hospital a few days before the 1956 revolution and stays there until it is crushed is spared from deciding anything, but the reprisals and the return to everyday life of 1957 still await him.
Aegon 2006 · Winner
Fogság
György Spiró · 59 when first published
Novel · 860 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Uri, a frail, short-sighted young Jew raised in Rome's Jewish quarter and unloved by his father, is mysteriously chosen to travel with the delegation taking the Passover tax to Jerusalem in the years around the death of Christ.