1. I left, just so that I didn’t have to set eyes on him. I could have left without saying a word, but I did tell him that I was about to leave. Only to go to the shops, mind you. He asked me what I wanted to buy, and I snapped that it was […]
Melinda Mátyus
MELINDA MÁTYUS (1970) is an ethnic Hungarian writer living in Transylvania. She studied theology in Cluj (Romania) and comparative literature at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her deeply original voice has generated important professional recognition and catapulted her to the some of the most important Hungarian and Romanian literary journals such as Litera, Jelenkor, Látó, Poesis International, and World Literature Today. She is a recipient of the Látó Award for fiction in 2020 and co-authored the trilingual volume Az ember tragédiája / Tragedia omului / The Tragedy of Man edited by András Visky. Het first standalone volume of fiction is forthcoming from a prestigious publishing house in Budapest. Her bilingual volume ÉletemésÉletem/MyLifeandMyLife (translated by Jozefina Komporaly) was released by Ugly Duckling Presse in December 2023.
