György Spiró
Biography
György Spiró was born in Budapest in 1946. His father was a engineer and his mother an actress.He studied Hungarian and Serbo-Croat at the Eötvös Loránd University and then became a trainee for foreign journalism with Hungarian radio. He graduated from the College of Journalism in 1972 with a degree in journalism and sociology. He then worked as an editor for Corvina. He teaches at the Department of World Literature of Eötvös Loránd University, and from 1992 at the Department of Aesthetics. he has also been very much involved in drama, writing plays, working as a theatre manager and teaching drama. As well as plays he has written novels, stories and non-fiction. Only one of his novels and two of his plays have been translated into English. He learned Polish and became an expert on Polish culture and translated Witold Gombrowicz into Hungarian. One of hisbest known works was set entirely in Poland.
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Bibliography
1974 Kerengő (novel)
1977 História (poetry)literature)
1981 Az ikszek [The Xs]
1982 A békecsászár (dráma)
1985 Magániktató dráma)
1986 A közép-kelet-európai dráma. A felvilágosodástól Wyspiański szintéziséig (literature)
1987 Álmodtam neked (stories)
1987 Csirkefej. Darabok (drama)
1990 A jövevény (novel)
1992 Kanásztánc
1994 T-boy(stories))
1997 Mohózat (drama)
1997 Shakespeare szerepösszevonásai (literature)
2000 Álmodtam neked(stories)
2001 A Jégmadár (novel)
2002 Honderű (drama)
2003 Három dráma (drama)
2004 Koccanás (comedy)
2005 Fogság (Captivity) (novel)
2007 Messiások. A jövevény((novel))
2008-15 Drámas:
1. Átiratok 1. / Jeruzsálem pusztulása / Czillei és a Hunyadiak
2. Átiratok 2. / Optimista komédia / Švejk / Mario és a varázsló
3. Az imposztor (The Impostor)/ Csirkefej / Kvartett
4. Vircsaft / Honderű / Szappanopera / Prah
5. A békecsászár / Árpád-ház / Príma környék
6. Helló, doktor Mengele! / Elsötétítés (Blackout)
2009 Feleségverseny (novel)
2010 Tavaszi Tárlat (novel)
2012 Magtár (articles)
2013 Álmodtam neked (stories)
2015 Diavolina (novel)
2016 Válogatott esszék (essays)
2017 Kőbéka. Mesély (novel)
2019 Egyéni javaslat(humour))
2020 Malaccal teljes éveink