Born 1950 · Hungary
Aegon 2016 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Guilty One”
Péter Esterházy · 65 when first published
Novel · 80 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:A short book written alongside a painter's watercolour diary, in which a writer who once promised murder stories to go with the pictures ends up telling the story of a single killing.
Also: Libri 2016 shortlist
Aegon 2015 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Simple Story Comma One Hundred Pages: The Mark Version”
Péter Esterházy · 64 when first published
Novel · 118 pages · Family, Historical
AI-generated summary:A family deported to the middle of nowhere in the godless mid-twentieth century: two brothers, one drawn to words and the other to God, a mother who pleases no one, a father who drinks.
Aegon 2014 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“A Simple Story Comma One Hundred Pages: The Swordfighting Version”
Péter Esterházy · 63 when first published
Novel · 250 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In the seventeenth century, a hard woman who knows how to love, and so how to hate, lives among men such as a Pál Nyáry, a cook who knows great menus by heart, and a prince who has people watched and reported on.
Aegon 2011 · Winner
Péter Esterházy · 60 when first published
Novel · 405 pages
AI-generated summary:Kornél Esti, who has a mania for reflecting reality and believes that things and the words that describe them can coincide and be separated, is told by his doctor that he is seeing double.
Aegon 2009 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“No Art”
Péter Esterházy · 58 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A son brings his dead mother back to life in a book: a woman who knows the offside rule and sees the world through the language of football, against which the son and everyone else take their measure.