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My Secret Life: Selected Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781780377032
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
My Secret Life is the first book in English translation of the poetry of Krisztina Tóth, one of the leading Hungarian poets of the generation who began publishing in the late 1980s. The recipient of many awards, Krisztina Tóth is also renowned for her fiction which has been translated into many languages including English. The poems in My Secret Life were selected by her from three of her nine published collections, with the addition of some new or previously uncollected poems.
Tóth is, and has been for several years, a major figure in Hungarian writing and, being a major figure with an important public voice, she has also been, and is now, subject to unrelenting attacks by the government-funded, government-supporting, gutter press. She has been self-exiled in England but is moving to Switzerland shortly. Originally attacked for suggesting that a couple of standard pieces of literature might be removed from the school syllabus and replaced by writing by living women authors, her life has become the subject of the sort of storm of defamation already practised on others perceived to be threatening the values of the government.
Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025
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