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István Vörös Foto: Gáspar Stekovics
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István Vörös (born 1964 Budapest, Hungary) is a writer and lecturer in creative writing at the PPKE University in Budapest.
His verse novel “Heidegger as Post Office Clerk” is an existential epic and an archaic, fantastical journey into the beyond. The text begins at the time of the First World War, when the famous philosopher had to perform his national service in postal censorship and weather observation.
Vörös has published 13 books of poetry to date, four short story collections, two novels and three books of essays. Apart from that, he has published two books of theatre pieces. His work is often about (self-) assurance, about probing supposedly self-evident facts, and questions of identity in the world.
Vörös translates poetry from Czech, German, English and Polish. His first German book “Die leere Grapefruit” was published by Edition Korrespondenzen. In 2008 he published a book of poems in German and Czech, in 2009 a collection of short stories in Bulgarian.
In 1998 Vörös received the Füst Milan Pris and the Tibor Déry Prize, in 2000 the Vilenca Prize, 2003 the Hubert Burda Prize and in 2005 the Premia Bohemica Prize. In 2006 he received a scholarship from the DAAD Artist Program in Berlin. Vörös lives in Budapest.
Publications (selected)
Die leere Grapefruit, Edition Korrespondenzen 2004
Heidegger als Postbeamter, Edition Korrespondenzen 2008