Born 1964 · Hungary
Libri 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Luther's Dogs”
László Szilasi · 54 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A writer in Szeged recounts surviving a brain tumour: a body that suddenly fails him, lost consciousness and time, the break-up of one family and the building of another.
Aegon 2017 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“While We Were with Others”
László Szilasi · 52 when first published
Novel · 292 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Three linked short novels follow three Hungarian poets living as outcasts, Babits in Szeged, Jókai in hiding after the crushed revolution and Bessenyei in his native Tiszabercel, each preparing for a great achievement.
Aegon 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Third Bridge”
László Szilasi · 50 when first published
Novel · 349 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Over a single day in Szeged, a former emigrant back from Canada, a detective returned from Germany and a street musician who never left tell their lives, starting from a recent class reunion.
Aegon 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Harp of Saints”
László Szilasi · 46 when first published
Novel · 317 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:In the 1920s, in the Great Church of a town called Haragos, the student Tamás Grynaus kills a wealthy farmer, Mátyás Omaszta, and both the body and the killer vanish from the scene.