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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)
  
  • God's Blade of Grass
  • Sorcerer Sonnets
  • Aeneas and Dido
  • Yorick's Soliloquy over Hamlet's Skull
  • On a Line by Attila József
  • Fragment
  • Back in St Petersburg
  • Philoctetes
• George Szirtes fordításai / Poems translated by George Szirtes
  
  • Franz Liszt Spends a Night Above the Fishmarket
  • Circumdederunt
  • The Mirror Has Broken
  • Passing Through
• Leslie A Kery fordításai / Poems translated by Leslie A. Kery
  
  • Circus maximus. [Translated by Leslie A. Kery]
  • All Souls' Day [Translated by Leslie A. Kery]
  • Rachmaninov's piano [Translated by Leslie A. Kery]
  • Winter road [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