Péter Farkas (born 15 November 1955, in Budapest) is a Hungarian-German writer living in Cologne, Germany.Péter Farkas biography - Internationales Literaturfestival BerlinPéter Farkas author's page - Publishing Hungary
Starting in the late seventies he was active in Hungary’s democratic opposition as editor of the samizdat Túlpartról (‘From the Far Side’, 1979). In Cologne he founded the Humane Gesellschaft für geistige Nekrophilie and Verlag IL, where he was an organizer of visual arts events and publisher of the arts series Edition Nekrophil (Hermann Nitsch, Jürgen Klauke, Endre Tot, Curtis Anderson etc.).
His main work Gólem,Gólem - Electronic Literature Directory an essayistic hypertext novel is considered the first significant Hungarian hyperfiction.Zoltán Szüts: A világháló metaforái: Bevezetés az új média müvészetébe, pp. 98–100, 2013Visy Beatrix: Szavakkal körbe, pp. 292–302, Magyar Irodalomtörténeti Társaság (Hungarian Society of Literature History), 2015Beke Ottó: Látható(vá vált) nyelv (Bartholomew, Gólem és Shrike) in: Tudástérkép, pp. 46–60, Vajdasági Magyar Akadémiai Tanács (Hungarian Academic Council Vojvodina), 2014 Péter Farkas became known to a wider audience with his novel Acht Minuten,Judit Ambrus: To die in a caul which was published in multiple languagesCf. Stilles Verlöschen, NZZ review, p.46, 26 January 2012, Demenz als Sabotage, FAZ review, p.30, 9 February 2012, Ich weiss nicht, was Demenz ist, Berliner Zeitung review, p.24, 7 August 2013Osm minut, iLiteratura.cz, 12 May 2008
Farkas is a recurring publisher in the Hungarian Lettre Internationale.Péter Farkas: Partitúra, in: Magyar Lettre Internationale 2005. spring #56Péter Farkas: Szaros szabadság, in: Magyar Lettre Internationale 2013-2014. winter #91Péter Farkas: 504, in: Magyar Lettre Internationale 2015. summer #97 In 1997 he was awarded the Sándor Bródy Prize for Hungary’s best first novel of the year. In 2010, Farkas received the Sándor Márai PrizeLitera.hu awarded by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, for his innovatively poetic style of prose.
Works (selection) Gólem, Hypertext 1996–2005 Nyolc Perc, Magvető, Budapest 2007 Kreatúra,Péter Farkas author's page - Publishing Hungary Magvető, Budapest 2009 Johanna,Ferenc Darvasi: Stranded between life and death Magvető, Budapest 2011 Nehéz esök (Hard Rain), Magvető, Budapest 2013
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