József Debreczeni Author

József Debreczeni was a Hungarian-language novelist, poet and journalist who spent most of his life in Yugoslavia. He was an editor of the Hungarian daily Napló and of U?nnep in Budapest, from which he was dismissed due to anti-Jewish legislation. On May 1, 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz after three years as a forced laborer. He was later a contributor to the Hungarian media in the Yugoslav region of Vojvodina, as well as leading Belgrade newspapers. He was awarded the Hi´d Prize, the highest distinction in Hungarian literature in the former Yugoslavia.

Paul Olchváry has translated more than twenty books, including György Dragomán's The White King, No Live Files Remain, Budapest Noir and Károly Pap's Azarel. He has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America and Hungary's Milán Füst Foundation. His shorter translations have appeared in The Paris Review, The Hungarian Quarterly and turnrow.