András Gerevich is a Hungarian

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and Professor of Screenwriting at

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Life and career

Andras Gerevich was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976. He grew up in

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and

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. He graduated with a major in English Language and Literature and a minor in Aesthetics from

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. Later he was a

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in the United States, and received his third degree in screenwriting from the

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(NFTS) in the UK. He is openly

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. He was the president of József Attila Kör (JAK), the Hungarian Young Writers Association from 2006 to 2009. He edited the literary journals '' Kalligram'', '' Chroma'' and contributed to '' Clamantis: The MALS Journal''. He has also written articles for magazines like ''

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'', PRAE and ''The Continental Literary Magazine''. He has taught courses in Creative Writing, Poetry and Screenwriting at

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, Milestone Institute and

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in Budapest. Gerevich's first book of Poetry ''Átadom a pórázt (Handing Over the Leash)'' was first Published in 1997. Since then four more volumes of his poetry has been published. His poetry features

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themes. He also wrote homoerotic poetry under several pseudonyms for magzines like

Mások ''Mások'' ("Others") was Hungary's first LGBT magazine, a social, cultural and human rights monthly, which existed for more than 17 years, from April 1991 to June 2008 (excluding its first unofficial issues, which were published from 1989 onwards). ...

. In 2008, his poems were translated into English under the title ″Tiresias's Confession″. In 2017, Andrew Fentham received the

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for the translation of his poem ″Balaton Accident″ into English. Gerevich himself has translated many English poems and books into Hungarian. His first book of translation ''Különös gyümölcs'' (Strange Fruit), which was an anthology of translation of

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

's poems was published in 1997.

Works

Bibliography

Articles

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Poetry

*''Átadom a pórázt anding Over the Leash' (in Hungarian), JAK-Balassi Kiadó, 1997. *''Férfiak en' (in Hungarian), Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 2005. *''Barátok riends' (in Hungarian), Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 2009. *''Tizenhat naplemente ixteen Sunset' (in Hungarian), Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 2014. *

Poems

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Translations

*''Különös gyümölcs (Strange Fruit)'', translation of poems of

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, translated with András Fodor, István Géher, Mónika Mesterházi, Zoltán Poós and Dezső Tandori, Orpheusz Könyvkiadó, 1997. *''Kapu a tengerhez: Kortárs skót költők antológiája / A Gateway to the Sea: Anthology of Contemporary Scottish Poetry'', translation of poems of George Bruce,

Iain Crichton Smith Iain Crichton Smith, (Gaelic: ''Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn''; 1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow, but moved to the Isle of Lewis at the age of two, ...

Norman MacCaig Norman Alexander MacCaig DLitt (14 November 1910 – 23 January 1996) was a Scottish poet and teacher. His poetry, in modern English, is known for its humour, simplicity of language and great popularity. Life Norman Alexander MacCaig was born ...

, Edwin Morgan,

Douglas Dunn Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University. Background Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Re ...

and

Carol Ann Duffy Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...

, translated with Nándor Balikó and Beáta Sándor,

, 1998. *''Hogyan fogjunk nagy halat? (How to catch big fish?)'',

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, Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 2007. *''Hűlt hely (Cold Place)'', translation of poems of Seamus Heaney, translated with Ferencz Győző, András Imreh and Mónika Mesterházi, Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 2010. *''Az ember a Fellegvárban'',

The Man in the High Castle ''The Man in the High Castle'' (1962), by Philip K. Dick, is an alternative history novel wherein the Axis Powers won World War II. The story occurs in 1962, fifteen years after the end of the war in 1947, and depicts the political intrigues be ...

by Philip K. Dick, Agave, 2015. *''Élőlánc'', Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, translated with Győző Ferencz , András Imreh and Mónika Mesterházi, Jelenkor Könyvkiadó, 2016. *''Töprengések vészhelyzetben'', Meditations in an Emergency by

Frank O'Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure i ...

, translated with Dénes Krusovszky, Magvető Könyvdyádó, 2020.

Filmography

Plays

Playwright

Radio

* Assistant producer, ''Poetry by Post'',

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, 2005

References

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