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Nádas Péter

Péter Nádas is a novelist, playwright, and essayist. Nádas studied journalism and photography, later working as a photojournalist. Since 1969 he has dedicating himself solely to literature, and in 1984 he and his wife moved to Gombosszeg, a small village in western Hungary, where they have lived since. 

Nádas has received numerous awards for his work, among them: the Prize for Hungarian Art (1989); the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1991); Hungary's prestigious Kossuth Prize (1992); the Vilenica International Prize for Literature (Slovenia, 1998); Prague's Franz Kafka Prize for Literature (2003).