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Sándor Jászberényi

Born 1980 · Hungary

In English
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Books on prize lists

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    Libri 2021 · Shortlist

    A varjúkirály

    Sándor Jászberényi · 40 when first published

    Short stories · 318 pages

    AI-generated summary:Fifteen stories that return home from the battlefields of the Middle East, about death and birth, friendship and letting go, loneliness in marriage and a childhood that takes its revenge.

  • In English

    Libri 2017 · Winner

    The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul

    A lélek legszebb éjszakája

    Sándor Jászberényi · 36 when first published

    Short stories · 200 pages · War

    AI-generated summary:Stories narrated by a disillusioned Hungarian war correspondent who escapes a dishonest world into war zones, alcohol, opium and brief love affairs across the Middle East and Africa.

    Also: Aegon 2017 shortlist