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My Secret Life
Selected Poems
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My Secret Life is the first book in English translation of the poetry of Krisztina Tóth. The poems were selected by her from three of her nine published collections, with the addition of some new or previously uncollected poems. Tóth is, and has been for several...
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Krisztina Tóth is one of the leading Hungarian poets of the generation who began publishing in the late 1980s. My Secret Life is the first book of Krisztina Tóth’s poetry in English translation. The poems were selected by her from three of her nine published collections, with the addition of some new or previously uncollected poems.
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My Secret Life is the first book in English translation of the poetry of Krisztina Tóth. The poems were selected by her from three of her nine published collections, with the addition of some new or previously uncollected poems.
Tóth is, and has been for several years, a major figure in Hungarian writing. Being a major figure with an important public voice, she has also been, and is now, subject to unrelenting attacks by the government-funded, government-supporting, gutter press. She has been self-exiled in England but is moving to Switzerland shortly. Originally attacked for suggesting that a couple of standard pieces of literature might be removed from the school syllabus and replaced by writing by living women authors, her life has become the subject of the sort of storm of defamation already practised on others perceived to be threatening the values of the government.
Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781780377032
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 February 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition: Paperback original
Contributors:
- Translated by George Szirtes
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 80
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About the Author
Born in 1967, Krisztina Tthare for adults.
Her plays includeThe Bat,published in English translation in the compilationPlays from Contemporary Hungary: 'Difficult Women' and Resistant Dramatic Voices(Bloomsbury, 2023). Two collections of her short stories have also been published in English translation,Pixel(Seagull Books, 2019) andBarcode(Jantar Publishing, 2023). Her work was featured in the anthologyNew Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation(Arc Publications, 2010). The first book of her poetry in English translation,My Secret Life: Selected Poems, translated by George Szirtes, was published by Bloodaxe in February 2025 and is on the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025.
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