Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in

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) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.

Life and writing

Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly

anti-communist Anti-communism is Political movement, political and Ideology, ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, w ...

father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed in

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n independence and overthrowing the Communist state. At seventeen he was arrested by the

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. 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.World Literature Today, Volume 76, No. 2
/ref> 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

Hungarian male poets Writers from Cluj-Napoca 1936 births Living people 20th-century Hungarian poets 20th-century Hungarian male writers {{Hungary-writer-stub