Szilárd József Borbély (); 1 November 1963 – 19 February 2014) was a Hungarian academic, writer and poet. 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.
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. Borbély committed suicide on 19 February 2014.
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)
Prose Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás? (2013). The Dispossessed, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Harper Perennial, 2016) Kafka fia (2021). Kafka's Son, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Seagull Books, 2023).
References
External links 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 Articles at Élet és Irodalom (in Hungarian) An Interview with Szilárd Borbély Asymptote Journal