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ISTVÁN BAKA
Istvan Baka (1948-1995)
BIOGRAPHY
- 1948 born in Szekszárd, Hungary
- 1966 finishes secondary grammar school in his hometown
- 1972 majors in Hungarian and Russian Literature at Attila Jozsef University of Szeged, and becomes a teacher in a technical school in his hometown
- 1974 works for the children's literary journal Kincskereső in Szeged
- 1993 editor of Kincskereső
- 1995 dies in Szeged
His prizes include:
- 1985 Graves Prize
- 1986 Attila József Prize, Cleveland
- 1987 Radnóti Prize
- 1989 Attila József Prize
- 1989 and 1993 Tibor Déry Prize
- 1991 Sándor Weöres Prize
- 1992 Tiszatáj Prize
- 1994 Book of the Year
- 1995 Júlia Szinyei Prize
- 1995 Mihály Babits Prize
- 1995 Károly Puskás Prize (posthume)
- 2009 Miklós Mészöly Prize (posthume)
- 2010 Book of the Year, Szeged (posthume)
- 2015. Freeman of the Town of Szekszárd, Hungary (posthume)
WORKS translated into English
Poems
- SELECTED POEMS (Abbey Press, Northern Ireland, 2003)
- In anthologies
- In magazines
- Zollman Péter fordításai / Poems translated by Peter Zollman (typescripts)
- George Szirtes fordításai / Poems translated by George Szirtes
- Leslie A Kery fordításai / Poems translated by Leslie A. Kery
- Fórizs László honlapján: Csak a szavak / Only the Words – translated by László Fórizs
- Babelmatrix: Babel web Anthology – The Multilingual Literature Portal
- You're Slipping Away Dear Dream. [Translated by Terry Varma.]
REVIEWS, CRITICS, ESSAYS about his works
- Balázs Lengyel: The Poet and his Experience. = The New Hungarian Quarterly, vol. XXVII/101.1986. Spring. 154-155. p.
- Miklós Györffy: Chances and Failures. = The New Hungarian Quarterly, vol. XXX/114. 1989. Summer. 182-187. p.
- Gergely Hajdú: Heirs and Heretics. = The Hungarian Quarterly, vol. 34/129. 1993. Spring. 133-140. p.
- George Gömöri: István Baka. Tájkép fohásszal. = World Literature Today, [Oklahoma, USA.] Winter 1997 issue.
- Peter Handi: The Light Signals of István Baka. = European Cultural Review 16.
- Margit Köves: Stepan Pehotny – István Baka: Identities of a Hungarian Poet in: The Russian Discourse in the Contemporary Intercultural Context, International Conference Proceedings, ed. Ranjana Saxena, 2O13 pp. 171-187.
OTHER TEXTS ON THE INTERNET
- Selected Poems by the late Hungarian Poet Istvan Baka. = Abbey Press Kiadó, Észak-Írország
- Istvan Baka (1948-1995) [Short biography and poems.] = Europian Cultural Review, 14.
- Stephen Watts: A Taste of 20th Century Hungarian Poetry. = Europian Cultural Review, 14.
- POEMS by István Baka. Translated by Peter Zollman. = Europian Cultural Review - Bookshelf.
- Eva Petroczi: Variations on a Brodsky-Theme: His „Aeneas and Dido”, Its Translations, Paraphrases and Imitations
- Eva Petroczi: Brodsky triptych. = Poeticanet.com