Ádám Bodor

Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in Cluj) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.

Ádám Bodor
The native form of this personal name is Bodor Ádám. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Life and writing

Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly anti-communist father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed in Transylvanian independence and overthrowing the Communist state.[1] At seventeen he was arrested by the Securitate.[2] After being freed he studied at a Calvinist seminary and began writing. After this he left Romania for Hungary and then spent some time in the West.[3] Several of his works have been adapted to film.

Bibliography
  • A tanú (1969)
  • Plusz-mínusz egy nap (1974)
  • Megérkezés északra (1978)
  • Milyen is egy hágó? (1980)
  • A Zangezur hegység (1981)
  • Az Eufrátesz Babilonnál (1985)
  • Sinistra körzet (1992). The Sinistra Zone, trans. Paul Olchváry (New Directions, 2013)
  • Vissza a fülesbagolyhoz (1992)
  • Az érsek látogatása (1999)
  • A börtön szaga. Válaszok Balla Zsófia kérdéseire. Egy korábbi rádióinterjú változata (2001)
  • A részleg (2006)
  • Az utolsó szénégetők. Tárcák 1978–1981 (2010)
  • Állomás, éjszaka. Tízkezes egy Bodor novellára (2011)
  • Verhovina madarai (2011). The Birds of Verhovina, trans. Peter Sherwood (Jantar, 2021)
  • A barátkozás lehetőségei (2016)
  • Sehol (2019)
  • Az értelmezés útvesztői. Tizenöt beszélgetés (2021)

References
  1. "Ádám Bodor — internationales literaturfestival berlin". www.literaturfestival.com. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  2. Segel, Harold B. (11 November 2017). The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231508049. Retrieved 11 November 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. World Literature Today, Volume 76, No. 2


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