Andrea Tompa is an award-winning Hungarian novelist, academic and theatre critic based in Budapest. She is former editor of the leading theatre journal Színház (Theatre) and is a member of the prestigious Széchenyi Literary and Arts Academy. Her novels include: Hangman’s House/A hóhér háza (Kalligram, 2010; translated into English by Bernard Adams, Seagull Books, 2020 – longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2022), Top to Tail/Fejtől és lábtól (Kalligram, 2013), Omerta (Jelenkor, 2017 – translated into German by Terézia Mora, Suhrkamp, 2022) and Haza/Home (Jelenkor, 2020).
Andrea Tompa is an award-winning Hungarian novelist, academic and theatre critic based in Budapest. She is former editor of the leading theatre journal Színház (Theatre) and is a member of the prestigious Széchenyi Literary and Arts Academy. Her novels include: Hangman’s House/A hóhér háza (Kalligram, 2010; translated into English by Bernard Adams, Seagull Books, 2020 – longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2022), Top to Tail/Fejtől és lábtól (Kalligram, 2013), Omerta (Jelenkor, 2017 – translated into German by Terézia Mora, Suhrkamp, 2022) and Haza/Home (Jelenkor, 2020).
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