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Gabor T. Szanto-writer of the Hungarian Film-1945
The native form of this personal name is Szántó T. Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.
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Gábor T. Szántó is a Hungarian novelist, screenwriter, poet, essayist and editor (Budapest, 1966— ).
Life
Gábor T. Szántó was born in Budapest in 1966. He studied law and political science and graduated from Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. He has been a participant of the Iowa International Writing Program Residency in the United States (2003). Szántó is the editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Jewish monthly Szombat. His additional field of interest is researching and teaching Modern Jewish Literature.
Work
He published his first volume of stories, A tizedik ember (The Tenth Man), in 1995. A volume of two novellas, Mószer (The Informer) appeared in 1997. Szántó has published a novel in 2003: Keleti pályadvar, végállomas[1] (Eastern Station, Last Stop)“. His second short story book Lágermikulás (The Crunch of Empty Boots)[2] was published in 2004 followed by a collection of poems A szabadulás íze (The Taste of Escape) in 2010. His novel, Édeshármas[3] (Threesome) appeared in May, 2012, and his new novel Kafka macskái [4](Kafka's Cats) in 2014.
His novella (Mószer) appeared in German as In Schuld verstrickt (Edition Q, 1999). A volume of short stories (Обратный билет – Obratnij Bilet) came out in Russian at Text Publisher, 2008. His short stories and essays have been translated to several languages. In 2003 one of his short stories was selected into the anthology Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary (University of Nebraska Press). In 2012 his poems were published in the anthology “I lived on this Earth...” Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust (Alba Press, London), and his writing was anthologized in the contemporary volume of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (Yale University Press).
One of his short stories (Homecoming) has been developed into a script and a feature film entitled 1945 directed by Hungarian film director Ferenc Török was shot in production Katapultfilm. Cameraman: Elemér Ragályi, music: Tibor Szemző. Screening is scheduled in US film festivals from January 2017. Audience voted 1945 'best narrative' at the Miami Jewish Film Festival and it won the 3rd place Audience Award Fiction Film 2017 in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.