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Kinga Tóth © Dirk Skiba
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Kinga Tóth (b. 1983 in Sárvár, Hungary) is a linguist and (sound) poetry illustrator. She works as a “communication specialist” (journalist) and is a reader for art magazines. Her own artistic work often crosses genre boundaries; she frequently performs her own poetic texts with sound support and has illustrated several of her own volumes of verse. She is also a songwriter and fronts the project Tóth Kína Hegyfalu and is a committee member of the József Attila Circle Literary Association of Young Writers, as well as an active member of numerous other projects and associations.
Awards:
Fellowship of the Schloss Solitude Academy 2013
Havirov art residency, Czech Republic, Visegrad Project; Móricz Zsigmond Literature Prize 2014
Leipzig Book Fair, Visegrad Program Bratislava, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2015
Guest of Goldsmiths University, London; Rosenthal Fellowship Jena, BOSCH-Solitude-Wimmelforschung Art Program, GEDOK Art Fellowship Lübeck 2016
Best Poetry Debut, Haus für Poesie, Berlin 2017
Fellowship of the Literarisches Colloquiums Berlin 2017
Publications in English, German and Hungarian (selection):
Zsúr. Poems with Illustrations, Prae Kiadó 2013
All Machine Poems, Magvető Kiadó 2014
Village 0-24. Poems, Graphics and Sound Art, Melting Books Publisher 2016
Wir bauen eine Stadt. Poems, Graphicsm Photos, Parasitenpresse: Cologne 2016
Party. Poems with Illustrations, Bird LCC Publishing House 2017
Holdvilágképűek, Magvető Kiadó 2017