White Wolf

Krisztina Tóth is one of Hungary’s most highly acclaimed poets and writers. She lives in Budapest, where, apart from writing, she leads seminars on creative writing. Owen Good, born in Northern Ireland, is a translator of Hungarian poetry and prose. His translations of Krisztina Tóth’s work received Asymptote’s Close Approximations Prize and were nominated for the TA First Translation Prize, the EBRD Literary Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

“Addresses the crises facing Europe today: the influx of immigrants and resulting xenophobia, mounting anti-Semitism and anti-Roma bigotry, the validity of the European Union versus nation-specific loyalties. . . . Even as Tóth slices her characters into single limbs and facial features, there’s no escaping their interconnectedness. In this way, Tóth makes the concept of a national 'border' seem laughably arbitrary.”

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