Owen
Good

Owen Good is a Northern Irish translator of Hungarian poetry and prose. Good is translator of Krisztina Tóth’s short story cycle Pixel (Seagull Books, 2019). His translations have been published in Ploughshares, Modern Poetry in Translation and The Poetry Review. He also co-edits Hungarian Literature Online.

Photograph © Gábor Valuska

MORE FROM THE TRANSLATOR

Fiction
Sunday Afternoon in the Hills by Rita Halász

In this short story by Hungarian writer Rita Halász a mother and her partner tensely await the homecoming of her teenaged daughter.

Fiction
Murder in the 17th District by Tibor Noé Kiss

In this short story by Hungarian writer Tibor Noé Kiss, a woman comes to terms with her mother’s death, while looking back on a mysterious chapter of her love life.

Fiction
The Last Fling by Koppány Zsolt Nagy

When his wife leaves for a business trip, Géza enters into a passionate love affair with a flexible and rubber-lined companion.

Poetry
Nile by István Kemény

A poem by Hungarian poet István Kemény, in Owen Good’s translation.

Non-Fiction
In War’s Orbit by Diána Vonnák

Written before Russia’s invasion, Hungarian writer Diána Vonnák explores the lives sucked into the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014.

Non-Fiction
The Grass and the Night Sky by Krisztina Rita Molnár

In this novel excerpt, Krisztina Rita Molnár writes about her mother, raising four children alone, in a two-bedroom apartment in Budapest.

Non-Fiction
Eight billion Shades – Capturing a World of Color by Attila Lóránt

Hungarian cultural anthropologist and photographer Attila Lóránt on a Central European perspective of racism and historical racial bias in photography.

Fiction
[1945] by László Szilasi

In Hungarian writer László Szilasi’s excerpt, Doctor Tardits returns to the village from Auschwitz, but what remains of his life there? Or who has occupied it since?

Fiction
The Polyglot Pub Key by Hász Róbert

Hungarian writer Róbert Hász recounts tales of his family home, a former pub in the multicultural province of Vojvodina, in modern-day Serbia.