Gábor Görgey

Gábor Görgey (1929), Hungarian playwright, poet and novelist, has published five collections of poetry, six novels, five collections of essays and some two dozen plays. His best known play Komámasszony, hol a stukker? - translated into English as Jumping the Gun - has had more than 50 performances all over the world. The Hunting Rug (1988) is his first novel to be translated into English.

Gábor Görgey is a crystal that stands out in the utterly multicoloured kaleidoscope of Hungarian literature. Among idiosyncratic style-artists, breakers of moulds and formal innovators he remains a narrator who - in the words of Camus - creates his own universe. Anyone that enters that universe is surrounded by a sparkling blueness and a sweet, languorous perfume, such as rises when we leaf through old photograph albums.
Imre Kertész