John Batki is an American

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writer,

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, and translator.

Life

Batki was born in Hungary in 1942, and has been living in the

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since 1957. He has taught at

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. Batki's work has appeared in ''The New Yorker''. He has collected weavings and textiles since 1975.

Awards

* 1972

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* 1975 MacDowell Fellowship * 1993 Fulbright Fellowship * 1995-6 Fellow, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study * 2003 Translation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Works

Stories

* Never Touch a Butterfly , The New Yorker , May 1970 * Strange-Dreaming Charlie... , The New Yorker , 1971 * This Life in Green , The New Yorker , 1972 * At the National Festival , FICTION , 1972

Essays

* *And Not a Soul in the Streets , www.hlo.hu

Poetry

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Translations

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References

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