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Terézia Mora ([ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ]; born 5 February 1971) is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.

Terézia Mora
Terézia Mora (2010)
Born	(1971-02-05) 5 February 1971 (age 51) Sopron, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Alma mater	Humboldt University Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Occupation	Screenwriter Translator Writer
Website	Official website

Early life and education

Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual.[1] She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Subsequently she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[2]

Career

Mora is working on a trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp, of which band I "The Only Man on the Continent" and Volume II "The Monster" have already appeared.

She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, whom she was elected by as a member in 2015.[3]

Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German.[3][4]

Mora is married and has one daughter.[2]

Awards and honours

• 1997: Würth Literature Prize for her screenplay The Ways of Water in Erzincan and the Open-Mike-Literary Prize of the Berliner LiteraturWERKstatt for the tale Durst
• 1999: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the narration Der Fall Ophelia (The case of Ophelia), contained in her first volume of stories Seltsame Materie (Strange Matter)
• 2000: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (promotional prize)
• 2001: Island writer on Sylt
• 2002: Jane Scraberd Prize of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation for her translation of Péter Esterházy's Harmonia Caelesti
• 2004: Mara Cassens Prize, Prize for the Art Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin), Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for her novel Alle Tage (Category: Fiction)
• 2005: Prize of LiteraTour Nord
• 2006: Villa Massimo scholarship
• 2006/2007: Tübingen Poetry Lecturer together with Péter Esterházy
• 2007: Franz Nabl Prize
• 2010: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Erich Fried Prize
• 2011: Translation Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW for her translation by Péter Esterházy's A production novel (two production novels) from the Hungarian and at the same time for her life's work [5]
• 2011: "Grenzgänger-Scholarship" by the Robert Bosch Foundation for research on The Monster2013: German Book Prize for The Monster
• October 2013: German Book Prize for her novel Das Ungeheuer[5]
• 2013/2014: Frankfurt Poetics Lecturer
• 2017: Bremen Literature Prize for Love Among Aliens
• 2017: Preis der Literaturhäuser
• 2017: Solothurner Literaturpreis
• 2018: Roswitha Prize[6]
• 2018: Georg Büchner Prize[7]
• 2021: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

On 3 July 2018, it was announced by the German Academy for Language and Literature that she will be presented the Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany's highest literary honors, at a ceremony in October 2018. The prize comes with an award of 50,000 euros.[8]

Works

Prose

• Strange matter, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 978-3-498-04471-8
• Alle Tage, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-630-87185-1
• The only man on the continent, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87271-1
• The monster, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87365-7
• Love among aliens, narratives. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87319-0

Poetry lectures

• Do not die, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87451-7
• The secret text. Salzburger Stefan branch Poetikvorlesung, special number publishing house, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85449-451-5

Screenplays

• The Ways of Water in Erzincan, feature film, 30 min. (1998)
• Boomtown / End of the City, feature film, 30 min. (1999)
• The Alibi, screenplay for a thriller shown in German TV,[9] 90 min. (2000)

Plays

• Something like that (2003)

Audiobooks

• Miss June Ruby (2005)

Essays

• About the drastic, in: BELLA triste No. 16 (2006)

Translations

• Als nur die Tiere lebten (2014), translation of Amikor még csak az állatok éltek, (2012), by Zsófia Bán.
• Abendschule – Ein Fibel für Erwachsene (2012), translation of Esti iskola – Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek, (2007), by Zsófia Bán

References

External links

• Terézia Mora in the German National Library catalogue
• Terézia Mora

На других языках

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[de] Terézia Mora

Terézia Mora [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ] (* 5. Februar 1971 in Sopron (Ödenburg), Ungarn) ist eine deutschsprachige ungarische Schriftstellerin, Drehbuchautorin und Übersetzerin. Sie übersetzt ungarische Werke ins Deutsche.

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- [en] Terézia Mora

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[ru] Мора, Терезия

Терезия Мора (венг. Móra Terézia, нем. Terézia Mora, 5 февраля 1971, Шопрон) — немецкая писательница венгерского происхождения, переводчик с венгерского.

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