HALASI ZOLTÁN (1954) poet, writer, translator
He has published four collections of poetry and a book of essays and a book of prose. His
poetry is of a philosophical bent and applies a wide variety of poetic devices. In his essays
he focusses on foreign cultures.
Main Prizes
2003 Hieronymus-prize for the Translator
2004 First prize of the Cultural Ministry for Lyric
2005 Palladium-prize for the Lyrical volume Így ér el
2008 József Attila-prize for the Literary Works
Main Fellowships
1987, 1994, 1999 Soros-Foundation for Lyric and Translation
1992 Heinrich Böll Stiftung Langenbroich for Translation
1993-94 CEU Praha - Research Support Scheme for a Comparative Essay
2001 IWM Wien - for Translation
2004 Schöppingen Künstlerhaus - for Lyric
2007 Graz, Internationales Künstlerhaus - for Lyric
2008 Zug, Landes and Gyr Stiftung – for Lyric and Translation
2014 Krakow, Villa Decius – for Lyric and Translation
Lyrical Books
33 vers, 1997
Így ér el, 2005
Költőpárok 4. 2008 (bilinguish, German-Hungarian) with Lisa Mayer together
Essays
Isten a malomban (God in the Mill), 2008
Prose-Lyric
Út az üres éghez (Road to the Empty Sky) 2014
Main Translations
Lyrics
(from Polish) Zbiegnew Herbert, Tadeusz Rózewicz, Adam Zagajewski, Jaroslaw Marek
Rymkiewicz, Zygmunt Mikulski, Wisława Szymborska, Czeslaw Miłosz, Władyslaw
Szlengel
(from Yiddish) Abraham Reisen, David Edelstadt, Anna Margoliot, Itzig Manger, Izi Kharik,
Moshe Leyb Halpern, Uri Cvi Greenberg, Abraham Sutzkever, Chaim Grade, David
Hofstein, Moshe Kulbak, Celia Dropkin, Zishe Landau, Leyzer Volf, Aaron Zeitlin, Itzak
Katzenelson
(from German) Walter von der Vogelweide, Süsskind von Trimberg, Hans Sachs, Friedrich
von Logau, Theodor Kornfeld, Johann Christian Günther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Peter Hebel, Gottfried Keller, Conrad
Ferdinand Meyer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, Johannes
Bobrowski, Paul Celan, Rainer Kirsch, Sarah Kirsch, Elke Erb, Christine Koschel, Lisa
Mayer, Marcel Beyer
(from Russian)
Anna Ahmatova, Boris Pasternak, Jevgeni Reyn, Joseph Brodski, Sergei Gandlevsky, Olga
Sedakova
(from Lithauan) Algimantas Mackus, Gintaras Patackas, Tomas Venclova, Alfonsas Nyka-
Niliunas
(from Latvian) Janis Grots, Aleksandrs Čaks
(from Persian) Omar Khayyam, Muhammad Samsud-din Hafiz
Prose
(from German): Thomas Bernhard, Johannes Bobrowski, Heinrich Böll, Elias Canetti, Franz
Kafka, Hermann Hesse, Johann Peter Hebel, E. T. A Hoffmann, Robert Musil, Martin
Pollack, Christoph Ransmayr, Hans Sebald, Robert Walser
Dramas
(from German): Georg Büchner, Ödön von Horváth, Elfriede Jelinek, Heiner Müller,
Emanuel Schickaneder
Essays
(from German) Sigmund Freud, Ernst Bloch, Carl Gustav Jung, Elias Canetti, Heinrich Böll,
Ernst Wolfgang Böckenförde, Gert Jonke
