Born 1967 · Hungary
Warwick Prize 2025 · Shortlist
My Secret Life
Krisztina Tóth · 58 when first published
Poetry · 80 pages
Translated by George Szirtes
AI-generated summary:A selection the poet made herself from her earlier books, with some new pieces: poems about lovers, parents and friends, grief and a sense of not belonging, that open into scenes of growing old, violence, animals bred for slaughter and death.
Warwick Prize 2023 · Shortlist
Vonalkód
Krisztina Tóth · 39 when first published
Short stories · 226 pages · Coming of age
Translated by Peter Sherwood
AI-generated summary:Stories that return to a childhood shaped by the 1970s, when a barcode marked everything that came from the West, and to the fears and reflexes the era left behind: anxiety, exclusion, and still, a childhood that was not all bad.
Also: Aegon 2007 shortlist
Libri 2022 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Whale Song”
Krisztina Tóth · 54 when first published
Poetry · 64 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems written between 2017 and 2020, in three cycles that move from a valley road through a journey to China to the places of everyday life, on memory and the return of the past.
Libri 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“White Wolf”
Krisztina Tóth · 52 when first published
Short stories · 126 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories of oppression, exclusion and violence told by nameless people we might meet in a lift or on the stairs, about lost homes, strange encounters and secrets that pull relationships apart.
Aegon 2018 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Celebration”
Krisztina Tóth · 50 when first published
Poetry · 116 pages
AI-generated summary:A selection of poems from seven earlier collections, chosen by the poet László Lator and published for the author's fiftieth birthday.
Aegon 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“World Adapter”
Krisztina Tóth · 49 when first published
Poetry · 80 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems set off by cities, objects, people and irritating or comic incidents, which follow a path to an understanding of everyday yet essential things: time passing, drifting apart, pain and loss.
Aegon 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Superglue”
Krisztina Tóth · 47 when first published
Short stories · 221 pages
AI-generated summary:Twenty-five stories, each a snapshot of Hungary over the past quarter-century, whose characters stand before turning points but keep putting off the leap.
Aegon 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Aquarium”
Krisztina Tóth · 46 when first published
Novel · 322 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A girl adopted at the end of the 1940s, her foster parents, her own child and her husband live in a run-down Budapest tenement, a cramped and transparent aquarium where everyone takes lovelessness as normal.
Aegon 2012 · Shortlist
Pixel
Krisztina Tóth · 44 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Chapters that work like pixels, each a whole in itself and each devoted to one part of the body, gradually reveal links between people and couples who collide and meet by chance across time and place.
Aegon 2010 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“High Ball”
Krisztina Tóth · 42 when first published
Poetry · 60 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems in two halves: one rethinks the Hungarian verse tradition, sometimes seriously, sometimes playfully; the other dwells on everyday situations pushed to an edge where tragedy and catharsis lie.