Péter Nádas

Hungarian author

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Hungarian form:: Nádas Péter

Born:: October 14, 1942, Budapest, Hungary (age 82)

Notable Works:: “A Book of Memories”; “Az égi és a földi szerelemről”; “End of a Family Story, The”; “Évkönyv: ezerkilencszáznyolcvanhét, ezerkilencszáznyolcvannyolc”; “Parallel Stories”; “Párbeszéd: négy nap ezerkilencszáznyolcvankilencben”; “Színtér”; “Szirénének”

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Péter Nádas (born October 14, 1942, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian author, essayist, and playwright known for his detailed surrealist tales and prose-poems that often blended points of view or points in time. Nádas grew up in communist Budapest. His mother died when he was a child, and his father committed suicide outside the family home in 1958; thereafter he was raised by his grandparents. He left high school before graduating and turned to studying photography and taking photographs for a Budapest magazine in the early 1960s. He earned a diploma from a journalism school in 1963 and subsequently worked ...(100 of 583 words)

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