Gábor T. Szántó is a Hungarian novelist, screenwriter, poet, essayist and editor.

Early life and education

Gábor T. Szántó was born in

Budapest 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 popul ...

, Hungary. He studied law and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and graduated from

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') 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 ...

in Budapest. He has been a participant in the Iowa International Writing Program Residency in the United States (2003). Szántó is the editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Jewish monthly ''Szombat''. His additional field of interest is researching and teaching Modern Jewish Literature.

Career

Szántó published a volume of two novellas, ''Mószer'' ''(The Informer)'' in 1997 and a novel in 2002: ''Keleti pályadvar, végállomas

''(Eastern Station, Last Stop)"''. His short story book ''Lágermikulás'' ''(The Crunch of Empty Boots'

was published in 2004 followed by a collection of poems ''A szabadulás íze'' ''(The Taste of Escape)'' in 2010. His novel, ''Édeshármas

''(Threesome)'' appeared in 2012, his novel ''Kafka macskái'

'(Kafka's Cats)'' in 2014, a volume of short stories ''1945 és más történetek'', ''(1945 and Other Stories)'' in 2017, and a novel ''Európa szimfónia'' (''Europa Symphony''

(2019). His latest book is a novel entitled ''A jazzprofesszor'' (''The Jazzprofessor''

(2024) His novella, Mószer appeared in German as ''In Schuld verstrickt'' (Edition Q, 1999). A volume of short stories (''Обратный билет'' – Obratnij Bilet) came out in Russian at Text Publisher, 2008. His novel ''Kafka’s Cats'' was published in Turkey as ''Kafka’nın Kedileri'' (2018), in Czech as ''Kafkovy Kočky'' (2020), his short story book as ''1945 e altre storie'' (2021) in Italy, as ''1945 a iné príbehy'' (2022) in Slovak, as ''1945 and Other Stories'' (2024) in English, and as ''1945 ja muita kertomuksia'' in Finland. The volume has been published in China in 2023. His novel ''Europa Symphony'' has been published in Bulgaria in 2022 as ''Симфония Европа'' and in Turkey in 2023 as ''Avrupa Senfonisi''. His novel ''Eastern Station, Last Stop'' has been published in Romania as ''Gara de est, cap de linie'' in 2023 and forthcoming in Slovak in 2025. The title story of his book ''1945 és más történetek'' (2017) was translated into English as 1945 (
Homecoming
'), German, French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Polish, Slovakian, Slovenian and Chinese and served as the basis of the internationally acclaimed film 1945 (2016 film), 1945 directed by Hungarian film director Ferenc Török was shot in production Katapultfilm. Cameraman: Elemér Ragályi, music: Tibor Szemző. The film is distributed in 40 countries.

Awards

* - Miami Jewish Film Festival, Best Narrative, 2017 * - 67th Berlin International Film Festival Panorama section, 3rd place Audience Award Fiction Film, 2017 * - Titanic International Film Festival, Budapest, Audience Award, 2017 * - Washington Jewish Film Festival, Audience Award, 2017 * - Chattanooga Jewish Film Festival, Audience Award, 2017 * - Berlin Jewish Film Festival, Best Directed Film, 2017 * - 34th Jerusalem Film Festival, Yad Vashem Avner Shalev Prize for best artistic representation of Holocaust related topic, 2017 * - 37th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco Critics Circle Award and Audience Award, 2017 * - 30th Der neue Heimatfilm, Freistadt, Austria, Best Fiction Film, 2017 * - Central European Film Festival, Timișoara, Romania, Best Film, 2017 * - 19th Film by the Sea International Film Festival on Film and Literature, Vlissingen, The Netherlands, Main Prize * - Vienna Jewish Film Festival Audience Award, 2017 * - Waterloo Historical Film Festival, Critic's Prize, 2017 * - Warshaw Jewish Film Festival, Best Screenplay Award and Audience Award, 2017 * - Australian Jewish International Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature Film, 2017 * - Main Prize of the Hungarian Film Critics, 2018 * - 14. Jewish Motifs International Film Festival, Warshaw, Audience Award, 2018 * - Traverse City Film Festival, 2018, Prize of Best Foreign Film

External links

Works

Kafka's Cats (excerpt from the novel)

Threesome (Excerpt from the novel)

A poem, short stories and an essay

Summaries of two articles by Gabor T. Szanto

Book review

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Yehuda Lahav: Red, not dead
(The Informer, Eastern station, last stop)

World Literature Today, September 1, 2005 (The Crunch of Empty Boots)

Film review

Berlin Film Review: '1945'

Interview

The word ‘Jew’ casts a long shadow

"Who do I write for?" Interview with Gabor T. Szanto by Paul Varnai
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