Krisztina Tóth studied humanities in Budapest, and has worked as a translator of contemporary French poetry. She was awarded the Gyula Illyes Prize (1994), the Graves Prize (1996), and the Istvan Vas Prize (2002). Her collections include A beszélgetés fonala / The Thread of Conversation (1994), Porhó / Snow (2001), and A londoni mackók / London Teddybears (2003). She currently lives in Budapest.

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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.