Born 1954 · Hungary
Libri 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Ship in the Fog”
Pál Závada · 65 when first published
Novel · 416 pages · Historical, Family, War
AI-generated summary:In the spring of 1944 the heirs of Hungary's largest industrial empire, most of them of Jewish descent, argue over whether to stay or leave as their fortune becomes the price of survival.
Libri 2017 · Shortlist
Egy piaci nap
Pál Závada · 62 when first published
Novel · 208 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:In May 1946, at the weekly market of a village on the Great Plain, women chase down and kill a Jewish egg trader, and a teacher's wife witnesses violence spreading through the community.
Aegon 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Natural Light”
Pál Závada · 60 when first published
Novel · 622 pages · War, Historical
AI-generated summary:Before, during and after the Second World War, men and women from Békés county, Hungarian Hungarians, Hungarian Slovaks and Hungarian Jews, are thrown into killing, forced labour, captivity and resettlement.
Aegon 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Our Foreign Body”
Pál Závada · 54 when first published
Novel · 391 pages · Historical, War, Love
AI-generated summary:In September 1940 Janka Weiner gathers relatives, lovers and friends, Swabian, Hungarian, Jewish and half-Jewish, in a Budapest photographer's studio, all stirred by Hungary's territorial gains and its race laws.