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András Gerevich (born: 1976, Budapest) poet, screenwriter and literary translator

Life
Andras Gerevich grew up in Budapest, Dublin and Vienna. He graduated with a major in English Language and Literature and a minor in Aesthetics at the Eotvos University of Budapest (ELTE). Later he was a Fulbright student at Dartmouth College in the USA, and received his third degree in screenwriting from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK. He now lives in Budapest and is the chair of the Hungarian Young Writers Association, the Jozsef Attila Circle. He is also an editor of Kalligram, a monthly literary journal. He has published two books of poems in Hungarian, and a selection of his work has been translatied into English by George Szirtes et al. His poems have been selected into a number of anthologies in a number of languages. He has also been the scriptwriter for short animations. He has translated a number of English speaking poets and writers into Hungarian, including Seamus Heaney and the filmmaker David Lynch.

Poetry
"It is one of the most difficult things in the world to write poems so clear, so pellucid, so free of metaphor and simile as to be almost pure speech. Everything depends on narrative shape and tone because there is little else. András Gerevich’s poems are like that. They are mostly about love, desire, and passion; a little like a diary, a little like a letter, a little like a confessional, the first person singular being at the centre of each. But there is nothing self-indulgent about them. In that respect they are reminiscent of Catullus on the one hand and Cavafy, in some moods, on the other. It is the range and precision of emotion that gives them their necessary independence: voice becomes free-standing sculpture, moving, elegant, beautiful. The poems enter English with a lightness, almost unannounced, as immediately recognisable feelings that make their own space and hold it as naturally as if they always belonged there." – George Szirtes

Filmography
Loved (D: Yann Demange, NFTS Production, 2004)

Heron People (D: Gemma Burditt, NFTS Production, 2004)

A Different Dish (D: Shay Hamias, NFTS Production, 2005)

Synchronoff (D: Catia Perez, NFTS Production, 2005)

Immeasurable (D: Cziraki Gergely, NFTS Production, 2006)

Forget Me Not (D: Kim Noce, Sherbet Films, 2006)

Plays
Csillagfiú (Starchild). D: Tengely Gábor, Budapesti Bábszínház, premier: Feb. 2008

Other works
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Interviews
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