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.
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