Zsuzsanna Ardó is a writer, photographer, editor, critic, broadcaster and translator. Her books include How to Be a European, Love Blues: Hungarian Rhapsodies, and Culture Shock! Hungary. Her photos have been exhibited internationally, and she curated the Dual Muse Exhibition at artsdepot, London. She runs the Hampstead Authors' Society in London. Her play, The Hat, was premiered at Harvard.

Recent articles

How long is the journey from "You know..." to social exclusion, disenfranchisement and, ultimately, devouring? A selection of photos from the photographer Zsuzsanna Ardó.

What do you get when you pair a Hungarian writer-photographer with a Pakistani musician? Answer: sublime photographs of the Danube, a narrated short story, set to the sound of the tabla and atmospheric Punjabi vocals, all presented in a multimedia slideshow format. Yep, only on openDemocracy!

Here today, gone tomorrow: how street-signs are public memory in the making.

The sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is an appropriate time to question the language used to describe the Nazis’ annihilation of European Jews and other “subhumans”, says Zsuzsanna Ardó.

Lake Balaton represents for Hungarians historical pride, cultural symbol, and linguistic tap-root. But for Zuzsanna Ardó it is also a place of remembered pleasures of childhood, motherhood, and belonging.