Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 26 (1991) Winner
Péter Nádas
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Péter Nádas
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1942-10-14 （Budapest）
- Nationality
- Hungarian
- Languages
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Reformed Church (Calvinism)
- Residence History
- Budapest, Hungary → Gombosszeg, Hungary → Castle District of Buda, Budapest → Berlin, Germany
Career
- Occupations
- writer, journalist, photographer, playwright, essayist
- Active Years
- 1961-2025
- Affiliations
- Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- Memberships
- Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- Influenced By
- Marcel Proust
- Nominations
- Nobel Prize in Literature (nominee)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | journalism and photography | — | 1961-1963 | Hungary |
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journalism and photography
Period:
1961-1963
Year of Graduation:
1963
Country:
Hungary
Institution unknown
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Prize for Hungarian Art | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1991 | Austrian State Prize for European Literature | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Kossuth Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1995 | Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1998 | Vilenica International Prize for Literature | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1998 | Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2003 | Franz Kafka Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Würth-Preis für Europäische Literatur | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2025 | Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Prize for Hungarian Art
1989
Result:
受賞
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1991
Result:
受賞
Kossuth Prize
1992
Result:
受賞
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
1995
Result:
受賞
Vilenica International Prize for Literature
1998
Result:
受賞
Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
1998
Result:
受賞
Franz Kafka Prize
2003
Result:
受賞
Würth-Preis für Europäische Literatur
2014
Result:
受賞
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
2025
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Kossuth Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 29 (1992) Winner
Vilenica International Literary Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 13 (1998) Winner
Franz Kafka Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (2003) Winner
Works
Major Works
A Book of Memories
1986 NovelDescribes the world as a system of relations linking human bodies to each other. Compared to Proust.
memorybodies
Translations
- English translation 1997
Parallel Stories
2005 NovelMultitude of independent stories melting into one narrative around two families: Lippay-Lehrs (Hungarian) and Döhrings (German).
family historybodily memorydesire
Translations
- English translation 2011
Bibliography
- The End of a Family Story
- Love
- A Book of Memories
- A Lovely Tale of Photography
- Own Death
- Parallel Stories
- Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- intellectual and detailedvirtuoso combination of 19th-century realism and nouveau roman experimentalisminnovative and demanding
- Recurring Motifs
- deathinteractions of bodies, attraction and desiresmemory
Health
-
clinical death不明Basis for his work Own Death.
Legacy
One of Hungary's major writers, highly regarded especially in Germany, compared to Proust. Master of experimental realism.
Academic Societies
- Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts
Trivia
- Born into a Jewish family but baptized in the Reformed (Calvinist) Church by his communist parents.
- Lost his mother at 13 and became an orphan at 16 after his father's suicide.
- His parents were illegal communists during WWII.