Pál Závada (born 14 December 1954 in
Tótkomlós
Tótkomlós ( sk, Slovenský Komlóš) is a town in Békés County, Hungary.
Name
''Komlós'' means "(place) with hops" in Hungarian, while prefix ''Tót'' is the word for Slovaks in old Hungarian. Hops also can be found in the coat of arms of ...
,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
) is a Hungarian writer.
He is a member of the
Slovak minority in Hungary, but he writes in
Hungarian.
His elder son, Péter Závada, is a poet and rapper of the underground hip-hop duo, Akkezdet Phiai.
Books
*''Kulákprés. Család- és falutörténeti szociográfia. Tótkomlós, 1945–1956'' (''1991'')
*''Mielőtt elsötétül'' (''1996'')
*''Jadviga párnája'' (''1997'')
*''Milota'' (''2002'')
*''A fényképész utókora'' (''2004'')
*''Idegen testünk'' (''2008'')
*''Harminchárom szlovák népmese'' (''2010'')
*''Egy sor cigány. Huszonnégy mai magyar'' (''2011'')
*''Janka estéi'' (''2012'')
*''Természetes fény'' (''2014'')
*''Hajó a ködben'' (''2019'')
References
People from Tótkomlós
Hungarian writers
Hungarian people of Slovak descent
Living people
1954 births
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