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Deszõ Tandori

Deszõ Tandori is a poet, artist and novelist. Since his first collection of poetry Töredék Hamletnek / Fragments for Hamlet was published in 1968 he has written over 70 volumes of poetry. During the 1990s he was awarded many literary prizes, including the prestigious Kossuth Prize.

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Hungarian Originals: three poems

openDemocracy presents poetry from “At the end of the broken bridge: XXV Hungarian Poems”, a special anthology published by Carcanet and the Scottish Poetry Library featuring poems in the original Hungarian and in new translations from leading Scottish poets.

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