Zsuzsa Selyem
Born (1967-05-15) May 15, 1967 (age 57)
AwardsNominated for Pushcart Prize, Aladár Komlós Award, Tibor Déry Award
Websitezsuzsaselyem.ro

Zsuzsa Selyem (Born May 15, 1967) is a Romanian-Hungarian novelist, poet, translator and literary historian. She works as an associate professor and the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania.[1][2]

Career

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She began attending the ELTE Faculty of Humanities[3] in 1997, and graduated with a PhD in Aesthetics in 2003.[4] She previously worked as a journalist and editor for the Hungarian Institute of Literary Studies,[5] before taking an associate professor job at Babes-Bolyai.

Awards

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  • One of her books, Moszkvában esik (It’s Raining in Moscow) was nominated for World Literature Today's 2016 Pushcart Prize
  • Aladár Komlós Award (2018)[6]
  • Visonary Award (1997, 2000, 2008)
  • Tibor Déry Award (2016)

Works

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List of Publications[2][7]
Name Year Type
It's Raining in Moscow 2020 Book
8 Kilos 2011 Book
Danube 1954 2016 Book
Somewhere 2001 Essay
Humor in the Avant-Garde and Postmodernism 2004 Book
Among Whites 2007 Essay
Forest Policy 2009 Essay
What Are You Waiting For? 2009 Short Story
Fictional Animals 2014 Essay
The First End Of The World We Spent Together 2020 Poem
The Moon through the Hard Water: America doesn't like me 2019 Poem
Himmler's Trick 2018 Essay
What a Charming Dude is our Neighbor 2020 Poem

References

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  1. ^ "Zsuzsa Selyem". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  2. ^ a b "Zsuzsa Selyem". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  3. ^ "bio – Selyem Zsuzsa". Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  4. ^ László (weblap.ro), Buzogány. "SELYEM Zsuzsa". hunlit.lett.ubbcluj.ro. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  5. ^ "Zsuzsa Selyem | The Modern Novel". www.themodernnovel.org. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  6. ^ "Aladár Komlós Award Ceremony – FUGA – EN". Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  7. ^ Selyem, Zsuzsa (2016). "Danube 1954". World Literature Today. 90 (6): 59–63. doi:10.1353/wlt.2016.0002. ISSN 1945-8134.