Krisztina Tóth (born 5 December 1967 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 ...

) is a Hungarian writer, poet and translator. She is currently residing in Switzerland as to February 2025. She left Hungary because of political persecutions.

Selected works

Short stories, volumes of short stories, tales * ''Vonalkód: tizenöt történet''. Budapest: Magvető Kiadó, 2006 * ''Pixel''. Budapest: Magvető Kiadó, 2011 * ''Akvárium''. Budapest: Magvető Kiadó, 2013 *''Pillanatragasztó'' Budapest: Magvető Kiadó 2014 *''Párducpompa'' Budapest: Magvető Kiadó 2017 *''Fehér farkas'' Budapest: Magvető Kiadó 2019 Volumes of poetry *''Őszi kabátlobogás'' 1989 *''Az árnyékember'' 1997 *''Porhó'' 2001 *''Magas labda'' 2009 *''Felhőmesék'' 2017

Awards

*Radnóti Prize (1990) *Gyula Illyés Prize (1994) *Tibor Déry Prize (1996) *

Attila József Prize The Attila József Prize is an annually awarded Hungarian literary prize for excellence in the field of belles-lettres. It was first presented in 1950 in honour of the poet Attila József. Another major Hungarian literary prize is the Kossuth Prize. ...

(2000) *István Vas Prize (2001) *Szépíró Prize (2005) *Sándor Márai Prize (2007) *Bárka Prize (2010) *Alföld Prize (2014)

References

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