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Péter Zilahy
Péter Zilahy (born 1970 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer and performer whose prose and poetry has been widely translated and who has often used photography, interactive media and performance art in his work. Literary work Zilahy's book of poems, ''Statue Under White Sheet, Ready to Jump'' (''Lepel alatt ugrásra kész szobor'') was published in 1993. His play, ''Der lange Weg nach nebenan (A hosszú út közelre)'', has been performed at the Volksbühne, Volksbühne Berlin. His dictionary novel ''The Last Window-Giraffe'' (''Az utolsó ablakzsiráf'') was published in 1998 and has since been translated into 27 languages. He has had exhibitions at the Ludwig Museum Budapest and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. The Last Window-Giraffe ''The Last Window-Giraffe'' is a memoir about the absurdity of everyday life under a dictatorship. It is written in the style of an actual Hungarian Pronunciation respelling for English#Children.27s dictionaries, children's dictionary, ''T ...
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Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ...
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