Steve Szilagyi

Steve Szilagyi is a critic, journalist, novelist and the author of Photographing Fairies (Ballantine, 1992), and co-author, with Bill Mesce Jr., of The Advocate (Bantam, 2000).

Ohio-born Szilagyi (pronounced Sil-AH-jee) graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant.[1]

A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in New York Magazine and other national publications.[2]

Photographing Fairies, his first novel, was short-listed for the 1993 World Fantasy Award,[3] and was made into the 1997 movie Photographing Fairies starring Ben Kingsley, and directed by Nick Willing.[4]

Szilagyi is a Pushcart Prize Outstanding Writer,[5] winner of a Cleveland Emmy Award (1996),[6] and First Place winner for Best Arts Writing, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists awards (2000).

References
  1. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Novelist Draws on the Power of Childhood Beliefs, August 2, 1992, p.1H,
  2. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Novelist Draws on the Power of Childhood Beliefs, August 2, 1992, p 9H
  3. "World Fantasy Awards -- Complete Listing". Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  4. "Photographing Fairies". IMDb.
  5. Pushcart Prize XI, Outstanding Writers Steve Szilagyi "The Aluminum Cage"
  6. Cleveland Plain Dealer, WJW, WEWS Top Local Stations in Regional Emmy Contest, June 8, 1997, p 5B.
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