József Bíró

József Bíró

(- poet / writer / visual artist / performer and editor -)

JÓZSEF BÍRÓ was born in 19 may 1951 / BUDAPEST / HUNGARY
poet – writer – visual artist and performer 1975 to present
organizational memberships : Hungarian Alliance of Writers
/ Art Foundation of Hungarian Republic / Belletrist Assotiation /
Nine Dragon Heads International Artist Group – (South – Korea) / etc.

Published Works - (books):

• SPACE PERCEPTION – (poems) – (1986)
• VENUS’S FLAY – TRAP – (poems) – (1989)
• TRISMUS – (poems) – (THREE BOOKS TOGETHER) – (1997)
• TRAKTA – (mini(ature) – proses) – (2003)
• ASIA – (poems) – (2005)
• MIRRORBONFIRE – (poems) – (2006)
• SELF ACTING – (- continuous oppositions / visual poems -) – (2007)
• KADO – (36 haiku) – (2007)
• DEATH OF MY DEATH – (poems) – (EIGHT BOOKS TOGETHER) – (2008)
• MUKKEUM SI – (81 haiku) – (2009)
• SMALLIMPORTANT – (poems) – (in memoriam to my poetfriend GÁSPÁR NAGY) – (2012)
• BACKSTAGE – (2 poems and 1 essay) – (2012)
• WELCOME – (108 haiku) – (2013)
• QUABEL – (visual poems) (REDFOXPRESS – IRELAND) – (2014)
• CONTEXT – (mini(ature) – opera – [ libretto ] and attendant poems) – (2014)
• STROMATOLITE – (poems) – (FIVE BOOKS TOGETHER) – (2014)
• MINAMOSOGNO – (mini(ature) – opera – [ libretto ] – hungarian language) – (2014)
• MINAMOSOGNO – (kurz – oper – [ libretto ] – german language) – (2014)
• TOP SECRET – (poems) – (2015)
• MAWKISCHCIRCLE – (poems) – (2015)
• SCORRERE – (visual poems) (VISUAL EDITIONS of OFFERTA SPECIALE – ITALY) – (2016)
• WELL – (visual poems) (REDFOXPRESS – IRELAND) – (2016)
• THEN AND NOW – (18 poems and 3 photos) – (2016)
• 300 – (poems) – (2016)
• PROBABLY – (poems) – (2017)
• SOMETHING ELSE – (poems) – (2017)

Creative Works:

• 9 individual exhibitions
• more than 700 group exhibitions around the world
• more than 90 single (live) – performances around the world

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Károly Sándor Pallai

photo © Kornél Kertész

Károly Sándor Pallai is a Hungarian oceanist, historian of literature, poet, translator and editor. He is the first Hungarian translator of several languages. His poems have been published in journals and anthologies worldwide. In his 2017 book, Subjectivités seychelloises, he gives a detailed analysis of the contemporary poetry of the Seychelles. In his Mosaïque des océans, he gives an account of the major ideas, notions and dynamics shaping identity in the literatures of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and Oceania. His third book, Microlectures polynésiennes presents the notions of identity and insularity in the contemporary writing of French Polynesia. He collected and translated the poems of Károly Fellinger in French in 2015 (Bétonnière ivre). He analyzed his poetry in his preface written to this collection of poems and in his article Metaphoricity and tropes of ontological condensation in Károly Fellinger’s Humility. He is the English translator of Károly Fellinger’s bilingual collection of tales, Kincsesláda/The Treasure Chest, published in 2017. 

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Károly Fellinger

photo © Jenő Görföl

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.

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