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László Darvasi

Born 1962 · Hungary

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Libri 2020 · Shortlist

    Magyar sellő

    Title translated by AI:“Hungarian Mermaid”

    László Darvasi · 57 when first published

    Novel · 204 pages · Politics, Historical

    AI-generated summary:In an imaginary German town in the Romantic era, a Hungarian mermaid brought in on a misty autumn day escapes and falls in love with a charcoal burner's son, while the townsfolk search for her.

  • No English yet

    Aegon 2010 · Shortlist

    Virágzabálók

    Title translated by AI:“Flower Gluttons”

    László Darvasi · 47 when first published

    Novel · 672 pages · Historical, Love

    AI-generated summary:In nineteenth-century Szeged, a city of Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, Jews and Roma, three men try to win Klára Pelsőczy, a woman born with a red mark on her palm, as floods, fire and the 1848 revolution sweep through.