Terézia Mora
Germany/Hungary
Terézia Mora was born in Hungary in 1970 and currently lives in Berlin. She is considered one of the most important contemporary German-language writers. Her prose, which often dives into the lives of outsiders and accordingly calls into question the apparently unequivocal definition of ‘normality’, subliminally depicts what secretly horrifies our society. Her novel, Das Ungeheuer (The Monster), was awarded the 2013 German Book Prize and in 2018, she was accorded the Georg Büchner Prize, to name just two of her many awards. Terézia Mora also translates from Hungarian to German, notably the works of Péter Esterázy and Zsófia Bán. Her novel, Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens (Muna, or Half a Life), was published in 2023. It convincingly shows the physical and emotional demands relationships make on people and how destructive they can be. “Simply marvelous” wrote Ijoma Mangold (Die Zeit).
Day in Day Out. Novel. Translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial 2007
Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens. Roman. 2023
Die Liebe unter Aliens. Erzählungen. Luchterhand 2016
Das Ungeheuer. Roman. Luchterhand 2013
Alle Tage. Roman. Luchterhand, 2004
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