K├бroly Fellinger

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K├бroly Fellinger was born in 1963, in Bratislava. He lives in Jelka since his childhood. He was the founder and editor of the quarterly review Words of Jelka (Jel─Нiansk├й slovo) between 1993 and 2003. He used to work as an agronomist, now he runs his own smallholding. He has published 18 books in Hungarian so far. Most of them are collections of poems for adults and children, a village monograph and tales. As a mythographer, he collected the tales and legends of M├бtyusf├╢ld (region of the M├бtyus, Mat├║┼бova zem). His volumes of poetry have been published in English, German, Romanian, Serbian, French, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Spanish, Albanian and Greek. He has been awarded the Golden Opus Prize of the SZM├НT (Hungarian Writers‘ Association of Slovakia) twice, the Imre Forb├бth Prize for the best collection of poetry written in Hungarian in 2014 and the Mad├бch Award. In 2013, he was the winner of the B├│bita poetry contest of the Hungarian Writers‘ Association. He was a deputy of the municipal council for twenty years and the deputy mayor for four years.