Szilárd József Borbély (1 November 1963 – 19 February 2014) was a Hungarian academic, writer and poet.[1][2] The Poetry Foundation identifies him as "one of the most important poets to emerge in post-1989 Hungary", who utilised several writing genres and predominantly dealt with subjects like grief, memory and trauma.[3]

Szilárd József Borbély
Born	(1963-11-01)1 November 1963 Fehérgyarmat, Hungary
Died	19 February 2014(2014-02-19) (aged 51) Debrecen, Hungary
Occupation	Academic, writer, poet.

Borbély suffered from "post-traumatic depression", related to the murder of his mother during a burglary in 2000 and the subsequent breakdown and death of his father, who had also been attacked.[4][5][6] Borbély committed suicide on 19 February 2014.[7][8]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• Adatok (1988)
• Berlin-Hamlet (2003). Trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2016)
• Halotti pompa (first edition, 2004; second edition, 2006; third edition, 2014)
• A testhez (2010)
• Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Princeton University Press, 2019). Selections from Halotti pompa and A testhez.
• Bukolikatájban (posthumous, 2022). In a Bucolic Land, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2022)

Novels

• Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás? (2013). The Dispossessed, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Harper Perennial, 2016)

References

External links

• Foreign language rights to "The Dispossessed" at Suhrkamp Publishers.
• Search results for works of Barbély held at British Academic libraries at COPAC
• Diána Vonnák: Tracing Szilárd Borbély's poetry in "The Dispossessed" Asymptote Journal
• An Interview with Szilárd Borbély Asymptote Journal

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