Szilárd Borbély

Szilárd József Borbély (1 November 1963 – 19 February 2014) was a Hungarian academic, writer and poet.[1][2] The Poetry Foundation identifies him as "one of the most important poets to emerge in post-1989 Hungary", who utilised several writing genres and predominantly dealt with subjects like grief, memory and trauma.[3] Borbély suffered from "post-traumatic depression" and died by suicide on 19 February 2014.[4][5]

Szilárd József Borbély
Born	1 November 1963 Fehérgyarmat, Hungary
Died	19 February 2014 (aged 51) Debrecen, Hungary
Occupation	Academic, writer, poet.

Notable works

Poetry

• Adatok (1988)
• Berlin-Hamlet (2017) translated by Ottilie Mulzet

Novels

• The dispossessed (Hungarian: "Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás?") (2013)

References

1. "Szilárd Borbély Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin". Retrieved 2015-11-11.
2. "Foreign Rights - The Dispossessed Novel - Szilárd Borbély". Retrieved 2015-11-11.
3. "Szilárd Borbély : The Poetry Foundation". www.poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
4. Rakusa, Ilma (25 February 2014). "«Es sei zu Ende»". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
5. "Szilárd Borbély "Die Mittellosen": Wir gehen und schweigen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 7 October 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

External links

• Foreign language rights to "The Dispossessed" at Suhrkamp Publishers.
• Search results for works of Barbély held at British Academic libraries at COPAC
• Diána Vonnák: Tracing Szilárd Borbély's poetry in "The Dispossessed" Asymptote Journal
• An Interview with Szilárd Borbély Asymptote Journal