Born 1956 · Hungary
Aegon 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Splitting”
László Garaczi · 62 when first published
Novel · 158 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age · Egy lemur vallomásai, book 5
AI-generated summary:A narrator moves back and forth between his early childhood, his teenage years, his first steps as a writer and his thirties, hanging around a Budapest square and drifting through Paris and Berlin.
Aegon 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“About Face”
László Garaczi · 54 when first published
Novel · 172 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction · Egy lemur vallomásai, book 3
AI-generated summary:A young man nicknamed Csont does his compulsory military service in a barracks of the Hungarian People's Army in Kalocsa, watching the routine, pranks and humiliations with the estrangement of a lemur.
Aegon 2007 · Shortlist
László Garaczi · 50 when first published
Novel · 150 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:One sentence, two women, and a man who nearly dies of it: an artist torn between his love for two women, who cannot find his place among his feelings or in the world.