Gyorgy Dragoman page

Author Biography (from publishers Doubleday): György Dragomán was born in Transylvania in 1973 and moved to Hungary when he was fifteen. He has been a film critic, journalist, translator, interpreter and web designer. Among the works he has translated into Hungarian are short stories, essays and texts by James Joyce, I. B. Singer, Neil Jordan, Ian McEwan and Micky Donelly. The White King was first published in its original Hungarian in 2005 where it won the Sandor Márai Prize. It is due to be published in twenty languages. György Dragomán lives in Budapest with his wife and two children.

Visit György Dragomán’s homepage

House Searches – a short story by György Dragomán, which readers of The White King will recognise

The Myth of Horror - György Dragomán’s account about the difficulties he had in writing a very violent scene

The Narrative Paradox: The Virus of Nothingness in Samuel Beckett’s Watt – an essay by György Dragomán

György Dragomán: ‘one can really see how a dictatorship functions through the eyes of a child” - György Dragomán talks about The White King in this interview which also reveals that “dragoman” appropriately means “translator” or “guide” in some languages

Remembering Romania – another interview about The White King with Publishing News

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