Ferenc Barnás is a Hungarian novelist.

Biography

Ferenc Barnás was born in 1959 in

Debrecen Debrecen ( , is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and i ...

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. From 1982 until 1988 he attended universities in

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

, and

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, graduated from

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...

(ELTE) in 1988 with MA degrees in

Hungarian language Hungarian () is an Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarian ...

and

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

and

Aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

. In 1991 he earned his

doctoral degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''li ...

at ELTE with a dissertation titled ''

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', ''Steppenwolf (novel), Steppenwolf'', ''Siddhartha (novel), Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', ...

világképe'' (''The

World View A worldview or world-view or ''Weltanschauung'' is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. A worldview can include natural p ...

''). From 1988 until 1994, he taught

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

and

aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed thr ...

in secondary schools for the arts in

. From 1990 until 1992 he worked as an instructor of

music aesthetics Aesthetics of music () is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in music. In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics exp ...

at the Department of Cultural History, ELTE. From 2000 until 2015 he worked as a museum attendant. He made a living as freelance writer from 1994 until 2000, and from 2015 until now.

Works

Novels

* ''Az élősködő'' (''The Parasite'') * ''Bagatell'' (''Bagatelle'') * ''A kilencedik'' (''The Ninth'') * ''Másik halál'' (''Another Death'') * ''Életünk végéig'' His works have been translated into English, French, German, Czech, Croatian, Serb, Indonesian.

Awards

* 2019: Milán Füst Prize * 2013: AEGON Prize * 2006: Tibor Déry Prize * 2001: Sándor Márai Prize

External links

* Ferenc Barnás' homepage a
ferencbarnas.hu
* HUNLIT Hungarian Literature Onlin

1959 births Living people Hungarian male novelists 20th-century Hungarian novelists 20th-century Hungarian male writers 21st-century Hungarian novelists 21st-century Hungarian male writers {{Hungary-writer-stub