John Batki
John Batki is an American short story writer, poet, and translator.
John Batki
- Name
- John Batki
- Born
- 1942
- Birthplace
- Hungary
- Education
- Columbia University
- Occupation
- Short Story Writer Poet Translator John Batki is an American short story writer, poet, and translator.
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- literature · translation
- Honours
- O. Henry Award
- Languages
- English · Hungarian
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• Name — John Batki • Born — 1942 • Birthplace — Hungary • Education — Columbia University • Occupation — Short Story Writer Poet Translator John Batki is an American short story writer, poet, and translator.
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John Batki, born in 1942 in Miskolc, Hungary, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Life
Life
Batki was born in Hungary in 1942, and has been living in the United States since 1957. He has taught at Harvard University. Batki's work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Yale Review. He has collected weavings and textiles since 1975.
Stories
Stories
• Never Touch a Butterfly | The New Yorker | May 1970 • Strange-Dreaming Charlie... | The New Yorker | 1971 • This Life in Green | The New Yorker | 1972 • At the National Festival | FICTION | 1972
Essays
Essays
* • And Not a Soul in the Streets | www.hlo.hu
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Poetry
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Translations
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Awards
• 1972 O. Henry Award • 1975 MacDowell Fellowship • 1993 Fulbright Fellowship • 1995-6 Fellow, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study • 2003 Translation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. • 2018 Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
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- 1.The Hungarian Quarterly, VOLUME XLIX * No. 192 * Winter 2008.
- 2.John Batki | Penguin Random House.
- 3.Search : The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com.
- 4.László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us”. The Yale Review.
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- 6.John Batki.
- 7.The World Goes On The Booker Prizes. thebookerprizes.com. 2018-05-31.
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