Born 1960 · Hungary
Libri 2021 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Manager”
János Háy · 60 when first published
Novel · 372 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A businessman who dumped his first wife for a new woman and grew rich on property and consulting over thirty years of post-Communist Hungary sees himself as the hero of his age.
Aegon 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Child”
János Háy · 47 when first published
Novel · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:A boy grows up in the dust and mud of a Hungarian village in the 1970s and 1980s and wonders whether he can become a great man, a philosopher, or whether the wine jug of his father and grandfathers awaits him too.
Aegon 2007 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“This Side of Marriage and Beyond”
János Háy · 46 when first published
Short stories · Love
AI-generated summary:Stories of lovers who become wives and wives who become lovers, of the married and the divorced, of those who still love and those who no longer remember, all of them overtaken in the end by death.