Fiction. Peter Nadas, born in 1942 in Budapest, is the author of A BOOK OF MEMORIES and THE END OF A FAMILY STORY, which have won him wide acclaim as the outstanding Hungarian writer of his time. A LOVELY TALE OF PHOTOGRAPHY is an hallucinatory novella about a female photographer who is suffering from an undetermined illness. Confined to a sanitorium, where she is surrounded by a cast of stock characters speaking various languages, she is made to confront a reality other than that framed by her camera.
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Höhe: 205 mm
Breite: 146 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-80-902171-6-4 (9788090217164)
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Péter Nádas was born in 1942 in Budapest. He is a novelist, playwright, and essayist. His mother died when he was young, and he and his brother became orphans after their father's suicide in 1958. Nádas studied journalism and photography from 1961 to 1963, later working as a photojournalist at the Budapest magazine Pest Megyei Hírlap from 1965 to 1969. Since 1969 he has dedicating himself solely to literature, and in 1984 he and his wife moved to Gombosszeg, a small village in western Hungary, where they have lived since.
Nádas has received numerous awards for his work, among them: the Prize for Hungarian Art (1989); the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1991); Hungary's prestigious Kossuth Prize (1992); the Vilenica International Prize for Literature (Slovenia, 1998); Prague's Franz Kafka Prize for Literature (2003).