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Károly 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 (Jelčianské 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 Mátyusföld
(region of the Mátyus, Matúšova 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
SZMÍT (Hungarian Writers‘ Association of Slovakia) twice, the Imre Forbáth
Prize for the best collection of poetry written in Hungarian in 2014 and the
Madách Award. In 2013, he was the winner of the Bóbita 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.