Terézia_Mora

Terézia Mora

Terézia Mora

Hungarian German writer, screenwriter and translator

Terézia Mora ([ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ]; born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.

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Early life and education

Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual.[1] She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Subsequently, she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[2]

Career

Mora is working on a trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp, of which Volume I, "The Only Man on the Continent," and Volume II, "The Monster," have already appeared.

She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, to which she was elected as a member in 2015.[3]

Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German.[3][4]

Mora is married and has one daughter.[2]

Awards and honours

On 3 July 2018, it was announced by the German Academy for Language and Literature that she was to be presented with the Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany's highest literary honors, at a ceremony in October 2018. The prize comes with an award of 50,000 euros.[9]

Works

Terézia Mora in 2009.

Prose

  • Strange matter, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 978-3-498-04471-8
  • Alle Tage, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-630-87185-1
  • The only man on the continent, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87271-1
  • The monster, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87365-7
  • Love among aliens, narratives. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87319-0

Poetry lectures

Screenplays

  • The Ways of Water in Erzincan, feature film, 30 min. (1998)
  • Boomtown / End of the City, feature film, 30 min. (1999)
  • The Alibi, screenplay for a thriller shown in German TV,[10] 90 min. (2000)

Plays

  • Something like that (2003)

Audiobooks

  • Miss June Ruby (2005)

Essays

  • About the drastic, in: BELLA triste No. 16 (2006)

Translations

  • Als nur die Tiere lebten (2014), translation of Amikor még csak az állatok éltek, (2012), by Zsófia Bán.
  • Abendschule – Ein Fibel für Erwachsene (2012), translation of Esti iskola – Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek, (2007), by Zsófia Bán

References

  1. [1]
    "Terézia Mora – Was bedeutet die Zweisprachigkeit für Ihr Schreiben?". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. [2]
    Krekeler, Elmar (7 October 2013). "Deutscher Buchpreis: Terézia Mora – Eine Frau schreibt sich in die Freiheit". Die Welt. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. [3]
    "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Akademie – Presse – Neue Mitglieder". www.deutscheakademie.de (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Roman "Das Ungeheuer": Terézia Mora erhält Deutschen Buchpreis". Spiegel Online. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Terézia Mora wins the German Book Prize 2013 for her novel "Das Ungeheuer"" (Press release). Deutscher Buch Preis. 7 October 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  6. [6]
    NDR. "Roswitha-Preis 2018 geht an Terézia Mora" (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  7. [7]
    "Terezia Mora erhält Georg-Büchner-Preis". news.ORF.at (in German). 3 July 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  8. [8]
    "Grimm Poetikprofessur geht an Terézia Mora". Börsenblatt (in German). 9 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  9. [9]
    "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis". www.deutscheakademie.de.
  10. [10]
    "Das Alibi" – via www.imdb.com.
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