Born 1970 · Hungary
Aegon 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Autumn Campaign”
János Térey · 46 when first published
Poetry · 816 pages
AI-generated summary:A selection of thirty years of poems, many reworked, together with a book's worth of new ones, set in a mythical landscape of Debrecen, Budapest and Dresden.
Also: Libri 2017 shortlist
Aegon 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Smallest Ice Age”
János Térey · 45 when first published
Novel · 624 pages · Speculative, Politics
AI-generated summary:In 2019, volcanic eruptions in Iceland plunge Europe into a sudden cold, and a Hungarian consul evacuated from Reykjavík returns to a Budapest sliding into a volcanic winter. A novel in verse.
Also: Libri 2016 shortlist
Aegon 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Crossing Budapest”
János Térey · 44 when first published
Short stories · 119 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories in verse that look into the curtained rooms and hearts of Budapest, from the Óbuda gasworks to Kőbánya and Terézváros, from the recent past to the near future.
Aegon 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Protocol”
János Térey · 40 when first published
Novel · 401 pages · Satire, Love
AI-generated summary:Ágoston Mátrai, chief of protocol at the Foreign Ministry, cultured, charming, well-off and hypersensitive, wonders whether that is enough for happiness, and which woman he should choose.
Aegon 2008 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Table Music”
János Térey · 37 when first published
Drama · Satire, Love
AI-generated summary:In the mid-2000s, nine narcissistic men and women in their thirties and forties gather at White Box, an elegant Budapest restaurant whose owner, Győző, casts himself as the centre of their lives.
Aegon 2007 · Shortlist
János Térey · 36 when first published
Poetry · 148 pages
AI-generated summary:New poems written from 2002 to 2006, long meditative pieces and dense short ones, which argue with their readers, with high and popular culture and with the great Hungarian poets of the past.