Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (1974) Winner
Sándor Weöres
ヴェーレシュ・シャーンドル
Sándor Weöres
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1913-06-22 （Szombathely）
- Died
- 1989-01-22 （Budapest） age 75
- Nationality
- Hungarian
- Languages
- Hungarian
- Residence History
- village of Csönge near Szombathely → Italy (1948-1949) → Budapest
Career
- Occupations
- poet, author
- Active Years
- 1934-1989
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pécs | — | law, geography and history, philosophy and aesthetics | 哲学・美学博士 | — | Hungary |
University of Pécs
law, geography and history, philosophy and aesthetics
Degree:
哲学・美学博士
Year of Graduation:
1939
Country:
Hungary
Doctoral dissertation The Birth of the Poem published in 1939
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Psyche
1972 poetryPoem
Adaptations
- [film] Nárcisz és Psyché / Gábor Bódy (1980)
Bibliography
- Hideg van, 1934
- A kő és az ember, 1935
- A teremtés dicsérete, 1938
- Meduza, 1944
- A szerelem ábécéje, 1946
- Elysium, 1946
- Gyümölcskosár, 1946
- A fogok tornáca, 1947
- Bóbita, 1955
- A hallgatás tornya, 1956
- Tarka forgó, 1958
- Tűzkút, 1964
- Gyermekjátékok, 1965
- Merülő Saturnus, 1968
- Zimzizim, 1969
- Psyche, 1972
- Télország, 1972
- Priapos, written 1950, published 2001
Translations by Author
- Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Henry VIII
- T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
- Tao Te Ching
- Jai dev's Gita Govinda from Sanskrit
- Nonsense poems by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll
- Complete poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé
- Taras Shevchenko
- Shota Rustaveli
- Oton Župančič and Josip Murn Aleksandrov
Legacy
Hungarian poet whose works have been set to music by composers like Zoltán Kodály, György Ligeti, and Peter Eötvös. Film adaptation of Psyché by Gábor Bódy.
In Popular Culture
- Poems set to music by Zoltán Kodály, György Ligeti, Peter Eötvös
- Psyché adapted into film Nárcisz és Psyché by Gábor Bódy