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László Darvasi
László Darvasi![Darva6[1][1]1](../../../files/legacy/Darva6%5b1%5d%5b1%5d1cdef.jpg?1144792800 "</i>")
László Darvasi was born in 1962 in Törökszentmiklós, eastern Hungary. He is a graduate of the University of Szeged. He worked for a time as editor of a Szeged daily from 1989, and as co-editor of Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature), Hungary's national literary weekly. Darvasi began publishing in 1991, his earlier work being mainly poetry. He now writes mainly prose, and his literary journalism has had a lasting impact on his short fiction. His major short story collections are A veinhageni rózsabokrok (The Rose Bushes of Veinhagen) (1993), A Borgognoni-féle szomorúság (Sadness à la Borgognoni) (1994), and Szerelmem, Dumumba elvtársnQ (My Love, Comrade Dumumba) (1998). After seven volumes of short fiction came his epic historical novel, The Legend of the Tear-Grifters (1999). Spanning more than a century of Ottoman occupation in Hungary in the 16th and 17th centuries, it has been hailed as one of the most significant Hungarian novels of the nineties, a hugely imaginative work sparkling with linguistic brilliance. Darvasi has received a number of scholarships from Germany and Austria. He won the Hungarian Book of the Year Prize in 1994 and the Krúdy Prize in 1996.
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