Born 1961 · Hungary
Aegon 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Nile”
István Kemény · 57 when first published
Poetry · 88 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems that open with one river poem and close with another, between the Danube and the Nile, on history and the present, passing time and eternity.
Also: Libri 2019 shortlist
Libri 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Goosebumps”
István Kemény · 56 when first published
Nonfiction · 228 pages
AI-generated summary:Essays from two decades on poets and poetry, art, history, politics, emigration, freedom and equality, fantasy and science fiction, Hungary and Europe.
Aegon 2013 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“At the King's”
István Kemény · 51 when first published
Poetry · 70 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems that read like ordinary everyday sentences at first glance and reveal their hidden meaning slowly, among them a farewell letter that renews Hungarian public poetry.
Aegon 2010 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Dear Unknown”
István Kemény · 48 when first published
Novel · 467 pages · Coming of age, Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:Tamás Krizsán stumbles from childhood into youth in a settlement near Budapest that is neither town nor village, in a family whose every member is searching for the ultimate meaning of life.
Aegon 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Living Speech”
István Kemény · 45 when first published
Poetry · 80 pages
AI-generated summary:A collection of new poems by one of the leading poets of the generation that emerged in Hungary in the 1980s.