Ferenc Barnás is a Hungarian novelist.

Biography

Ferenc Barnás was born in 1959 in

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. From 1982 until 1988 he attended universities in

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, and

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, graduated from

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(ELTE) in 1988 with MA degrees in

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and

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and

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. In 1991 he earned his

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at ELTE with a dissertation titled ''

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophic ...

világképe'' (''The

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''). From 1988 until 1994, he taught

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

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in secondary schools for the arts in

. From 1990 until 1992 he worked as an instructor of music aesthetics at the Department of Cultural History, ELTE. From 2000 until 2015 he worked as a museum attendant. He made a living as freelance writer from 1994 until 2000, and from 2015 until now.

Works

Novels

* ''Az élősködő'' (''The Parasite'') * ''Bagatell'' (''Bagatelle'') * ''A kilencedik'' (''The Ninth'') * ''Másik halál'' (''Another Death'') * ''Életünk végéig'' His works have been translated into English, French, German, Czech, Croatian, Serb, Indonesian.

Awards

* 2019: Milán Füst Prize * 2013: AEGON Prize * 2006: Tibor Déry Prize * 2001: Sándor Márai Prize

External links

* Ferenc Barnás' homepage a
ferencbarnas.hu
* HUNLIT Hungarian Literature Onlin

1959 births Living people Hungarian male novelists 20th-century Hungarian novelists 20th-century Hungarian male writers 21st-century Hungarian novelists 21st-century Hungarian male writers {{Hungary-writer-stub