Education
He studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University university in Budapest from 1969 to 1974. His first writings were published in literary journals in 1974.
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He studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University university in Budapest from 1969 to 1974. His first writings were published in literary journals in 1974.
His books are considered to be significant contributions to postwar literature. He worked as a mathematician from 1974 to 1978, and he became a freelance writer in 1978. His next novel, Revised Edition (Javított kiadás, 2002), which appeared as an "appendix" to the former work, was born from the shock when he learnt that his father was an informer for the secret police of the Communist era.
The book deals with the research work as a diary, his father"s unfolding activity, and the very process of his facing and digesting the facts.
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt) Akademie der Künste (Berlin) Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres "Esterhazy"s prose is jumpy, allusive, and slangy..there is vividness, an electric crackle.
The sentences are active and concrete. Physical details leap from the murk of emotional ambivalence." (John Updike, The New Yorker).
Vilenica Prize, Slovenia (1988) Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (1992, 1994, 2003) Prize of the Literary Festival in Rome, Italy (1993) Bjørnson Prize, Norway (1995) Austrian State Prize (1999) Herder Prize, Austria (2002) Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at Frankfurt Book Fair (2004) Angelus Central European Literature Award, Wroclaw, Poland (2007) He has also received nearly 20 awards in his native country.
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Esterházy, the scion of a comital branch of the Esterházy magnate family, is perhaps best known outside of his native country for Celestial Harmonies (Harmonia Caelestis, 2000) which chronicles his forefathers" epic rise during the Austro-Hungarian empire – when Haydn composed music at the family palace – to its dispossession under communism.
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (Darmstadt)
Akademie der Künste (Berlin)
Académie Européenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres.
