Born 1963 · Hungary
Aegon 2014 · Shortlist
Nincstelenek
Szilárd Borbély · 50 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:A boy grows up in a poor village where his family must always keep silent, never say who they are and never mix with the peasant children, because they will always be the scapegoats.
Aegon 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“They Pass Before Our Eyes”
Szilárd Borbély · 48 when first published
Drama · 340 pages
AI-generated summary:Plays that borrow the forms of ancient tragedy, the mystery play, the theatrical parable and the fairground farce to stage present-day Hungary: stammering ignorance, social helplessness and aggression.
Aegon 2011 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“To the Body”
Szilárd Borbély · 47 when first published
Poetry · 170 pages
AI-generated summary:Odes and legends centred on suffering, which bring to life the memories of the Holocaust's nameless survivors and the testimonies of mothers who lost their unborn children and of humiliated women.