{"id":2,"date":"2007-09-30T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-06-28T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T06:15:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n, Hungarian novelist and translator.<br \/>\nI have two novels out so far, The Book of Destruction (A puszt\u00edt\u00e1s k\u00f6nyve, 2002) and The White King. (A feh\u00e9r kir\u00e1ly, 2005). Chapters of The White King have been published In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/183\">The Paris Review<\/a>, and the book was translated into thirty languages, receiving favorable reviews in most major papers around the globe. The White King was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondation-janmichalski.com\/en\/media\/communique-de-presse\/le-prix-jan-michalski-de-litterature-2011\/\">Jan Michalski Prize<\/a> in 2011. It is optioned for film by <a href=\"http:\/\/oiffy.com\/\">Oiffy<\/a> productions in the UK.<br \/>\nI have published stories and pieces in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Le Monde, Die Zeit, Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung and various Hungarian journals and magazines.<br \/>\nI also work as a translator, did essays, stories and books by: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Ian McEwan, Ivrine Welsh, Sebastian Barry, Mickey Donelly and Isaac Bashevis Singer.<br \/>\nMy most recent translation was Samuel Beckett&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/katonajozsefszinhaz.hu\/component\/content\/article\/5-bemutatok\/40751-samuel-beckett-szep-napok\">Happy Days<\/a>, which opened in January 2014 in Katona J\u00f3zsef Theater, in Budapest.<br \/>\nI live in Buda\u00f6rs, with my wife, the poet Anna T. Szab\u00f3, we have two kids.<br \/>\nCurrently I am a writer in residence at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinki.fi\/collegium\/english\/\">Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Gy\u00f6rgy Dragom\u00e1n, Hungarian novelist and translator. I have two novels out so far, The Book of Destruction (A puszt\u00edt\u00e1s k\u00f6nyve, 2002) and The White King. (A feh\u00e9r kir\u00e1ly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}