Péter Zilahy

Péter Zilahy [ pe ː tɛr zilɒhi ] ( born November 8, 1970 in Budapest) is a Hungarian author and photographer.

He has established itself as a prose writer, poet, performer, photographer and editor of an international debut series ( Pelevin, Schulze, Grunberg, Stasiuk, Erpenbeck and others) made ​​a name for himself outside the borders of Hungary. In German recently in 2004 his novel The Last Window Giraffe ( Original: Az utolsó ablakzsiráf, 1998, Ab Ovo -Verlag) when Eichborn Verlag, in the translation of the Bachmann Prize winner Terézia Mora. In this work Zilahy lets the history of Eastern European dictatorships in the 20th century from the perspective of a child Revue. The title alludes to the children lexicon Ablak - Zsiráf, which was very popular in Hungary in the 1970s. The Austrian theater director Martin Kušej used for his production King Ottokar's Fortune and End (2005, Salzburg Festival, and Burgtheater ) a well-known and oft-quoted part of this book in which the history of the European revolutions backwards summarized. Lived until August 2009 From September 2008 and Zilahy worked just there as town clerk of Graz.

Works

• Three. Narratives, diaries, poems, Edition Solitude, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3929085836th
• The Last Window Giraffe. A Revolution alphabet, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3,821,807,555th