Péter Esterházy (1950–2016)
Author of Celestial Harmonies
About the Author
Péter Esterházy was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 14, 1950. He received a mathematics degree in 1974 before becoming a writer. His major works included Celestial Harmonies, A Little Hungarian Pornography, and The Glance of the Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube). He received the Kossuth show more Prize, Hungary's highest cultural distinction, in 1996 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2004. He died from pancreatic cancer on July 14, 2016 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Péter Esterházy, Leipzig Book Fair 2013 By Lesekreis - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25209211
Works by Péter Esterházy
És mesélni kezdtem 3 copies
Körkép 79: harminchárom mai magyar elbeszélés — Author — 1 copy
Život i književnost 1 copy
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 352 copies
Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing (1994) — Contributor — 77 copies
McSweeney's Issue 42 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Multiples (2013) — Translator/Contributor — 63 copies
The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain (2009) — Contributor — 53 copies
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- Canonical name
- Esterházy, Péter
- Other names
- Csokonai Lili
- Birthdate
- 1950-04-14
- Date of death
- 2016-07-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Birthplace
- Budapest, Hungary
- Place of death
- Budapest, Hungary
- Places of residence
- Budapest, Hungary
- Education
- Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- Occupations
- mathematician
writer - Organizations
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- Awards and honors
- Vilenica International Literary Prize (1988)
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (2004)
Kossuth Prize (1996)
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- Works
- 68
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 1,616
- Popularity
- #15,943
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 32
- ISBNs
- 255
- Languages
- 23
- Favorited
- 4
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