Professor at the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest, author, playwright, essayist. Published three novels in Hungary, Who isn't (1999), Zehuze (2007), I was Twelve Women (2013). Besides these novels he published three essay-books about literature, theatre and film. His first play The Player, after Dostoyevski's novel was presented at the Katona József Színház, in 1985. He wrote many adaptations of classical and newer authors (Flaubert, Garcia Marquez, Hamsun, Danilo Kis), and several original plays, among them Vitellius and The Key, which won prizes and were also translated into several languages. In the last years, he directed his own play, The Boy in Oradea/Nagyvárad, (2013), and his very last play, The End is Close, was premiered (also in his own direction) in january of 2014 in Budapest in the Rózsavölgyi Szalon. He translated the plays of Kleist, Beaumarchais, Genet, Wedekind, Ödön von Horvath, Marlowe, Pinter, and many others.
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