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Zoltán Tolvaj (born 1978 in Budapest, Hungary) spent his first few years in Brazil then grew up in Transylvania and Hungary. Since 1998 he has been writing poems, essays and short stories which have been published in many Hungarian literary magazines . He has published two collections of verse. Zoltán Tolvaj studied astrology and Hungarian and Portuguese language and literature, has worked in hostels and as a bar musician and was from 2003 to 2008 the online editor of a Hungarian literature portal. In 2010 he received the Móricz Zsigmond fellowship for young Hungarian writers. He also works as a translator from Brazilian, Portuguese and Galician and has won various literary prizes for his translations, including the Junior Parnassus Prize of the city of Eger.
Publications:
Translation of César Aira’s novel Ghosts (2012)