Creator Bio
György Konrád
1933–2019
Hungarian-born György Konrád was a novelist and essayist. After graduating with a degree in literature from the Eötvös Loránd University, he was an editor for the magazine Életképek. Konrád was a dissident under the communist regime and participated in the Hungarian uprising of 1956. In 1973, he was arrested and lost his job. In 1990 he was elected president of the International PEN Club, and in 1997 became director of the Art Academy in Berlin. He earned the Herder Prize, the Charlemagne Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Loser
Grandfather scurries from cupboard to cupboard in his black coat; he looks in every corner, checking for bread crumbs in my treasure drawer, under my crystals and shells. He rummages through…
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Eternally Waiting
Can Jews remain in East-Central Europe? That is the question.
Hungary has between eighty and a hundred thousand Jews, Romania about twenty thousand, the rest of the countries a few thousand each. Jews…