the carcass remover
reading & talk. during buch wien.
9 november 2018, 7 p.m.; free admission
venue: vienna poetry school, mariahilfer str. 88a/stairs III/7, 1070 vienna
in association with the vienna book fair "buch wien", author zoltán danyi from senta in serbia (and a member of the local hungarian minority) reads from his new novel "the carcass remover". fritz ostermayer talks to him about his specific situation as "hungarian" writer in serbia and the individual experiences of cultural minorities in the "ex-yugoslavian trauma" of war and post-war nationalisms.
reading of the german translation of "the carcass remover": ursula scheidle
zoltán danyi
*1972 in senta/yugoslavia. studied philosophy and literature in novi sad and szeged. in 2003, he made his debut as a poet and also published short stories. he completed a phd in 2008 on the hungarian writer béla hamvas, and went on to work as an editor and schoolteacher. for his first novel, the carcass remover, he received the miklós-mészöly-prize.
(c) tibor weiner
buch wien in association with vienna poetry school
