Benedek Totth

Born in Hungary in 1977, Benedek Totth studied American literature and now works as an editor and translator in Budapest. His translations into Hungarian include works by Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs. Dead Heat, his first novel, caused a sensation in Hungary, where it won the Margó Prize for best first novel of the year. It has been published in translation in France and Slovakia.

Born in 1975 in Vancouver, Ildikó Noemi Nagy grew up in the United States and studied in Budapest at the Franz Liszt Music Academy and Eötvös Lóránd University. Her short story collection Eggyétörve (Broken in One) appeared in German translation. Her previous translations from Hungarian include Eva Fejos’s novels Bangkok Transit and Vacation in Naples.