Károly Fellinger

Károly Fellinger
Born 1963
Jóka
Genre Poetry, tales, Prose
Notable works Külön bejárat (2015), Kincsesláda (2015), Bétonnière ivre (2015), Humility (2014), Alázat (2013), Rész és egész (2012)
Notable awards Madách Award (2016), Imre Forbáth Prize (2014), Arany Opus Prize (2010)

Károly Fellinger (born 1963) is a Hungarian poet, writer, local historian living in Slovakia.

Life and works

Born in Bratislava, Károly Fellinger lives in Jelka since his childhood. During his high school years in the Hungarian Academic Grammar School of Galanta, he was the editor in chief of the school journal and the founding editor of the quarterly review Words of Jelka (Jelčianské slovo) between 1993 and 2003.[1] He used to work as an agronomist, now he runs his own smallholding. He has published 20 books in Hungarian so far. Most of them are collections of poems for adults and children, a village monograph and tales. As a mythographer, he collected the tales and legends of Mátyusföld (region of the Mátyus, Matúšova zem). His volumes of poetry have been published in English, German, Romanian, Serbian, French, Russian, Slovak and Turkish. He has been awarded the Golden Opus Prize of the SZMÍT (Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia)[2][3] twice and the Imre Forbáth Prize for the best collection of poetry written in Hungarian in 2014.[4][5] In 2013, he was the winner of the Bóbita poetry contest of the Hungarian Writers' Association.[6] He was a deputy of the municipal council for twenty years and the deputy mayor for years.

In 2014, his volume of selected poetry was translated in English and published in Canada.[7] His poem was featured in the international anthology Poems for the Hazara in 2014.[8] In the same year, Károly Pallai devoted an English language analysis to the poetry of Fellinger.[9] In 2016, he received the prestigious Madách Award of the Slovakian Literary Fund for his collection of poems Különbejárat.[10] In 2016, he was the only Slovakian author to be published in the 2015 edition of the World Poetry Yearbook (China).[11] In 2016, his poems were selected and published in the yearly anthology of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia.[12]

He is a member of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia and of the Hungarian Writers' Association.

Literary prizes

Major works

References

  1. ↑ Sanyi, Angyali. "Fellinger Károly kifogyhatatlan lírazsákja". Klikk Out (Interview). Interview with Sanyi Angyali. pp. 6–11. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Prae, .hu (22 November 2011). "Ismét Fellinger Károly kapta a szlovákiai Arany Opus-díjat". Prae.hu. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Újság, Szabad (19 November 2011). "Fellinger Károly kapta az Arany Opus-díjat". Szabad Újság. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Somogyi, Tibor (16 May 2014). "Fellinger Károly Forbáth-, Pénzes Tímea Talamon-díjas". Új Szó. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Felvidék, Ma (16 May 2014). "Pénzes Tímea és Fellinger Károly irodalmi díjat kapott". Felvidék Ma. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Szlovákiai Magyar, Írók Társasága. "Fellinger Károly a Bóbita Költőverseny fődíjasa". SZMÍT. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  7. ↑ "Humility, poetry by Károly Fellinger". Libros Libertad. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Poems for the Hazara People". World Poetry Movement. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Károly Sándor, Pallai (2014). "Metaphoricity and tropes of ontological condensation in Károly Fellinger's Humility". Vents Alizés. Victoria, Seychelles (2014/2): 145–152.
  10. ↑ "Slávnostné odovzdávanie Cien a Prémií LITERÁRNEHO FONDU za pôvodnú literárnu tvorbu za rok 2015 – v Zichyho paláci v Bratislave". Literárny týždenník. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  11. ↑ Fellinger, Károly (2016). Zhang Zhi, Lai Tingjie, ed. World Poetry Yearbook (in angol) (2015 ed.). Chongqing, Kína: International Poetry and Translation Centre (IPTRC) - Earth Culture Press. pp. 300–301.
  12. ↑ Fellinger, Károly (2016). SZÉP 2016 (in Hungarian). Dunajská Streda: Szlovákiai Magyar Írók Társasága. pp. 41–47. ISBN 978-80-89806-04-1.
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