Terézia Mora

Terézia Mora ([ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ]; born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.

Terézia Mora
Terézia Mora (2010)
Born (1971-02-05) 5 February 1971
Sopron, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
Alma materHumboldt University
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Occupation(s)Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life and education

Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual.[1] She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Subsequently she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[2]

Career

Mora is working on a trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp, of which Volume I, "The Only Man on the Continent," and Volume II, "The Monster," have already appeared.

She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, to which she was elected as a member in 2015.[3]

Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German.[3][4]

Mora is married and has one daughter.[2]

Awards and honours

On 3 July 2018, it was announced by the German Academy for Language and Literature that she will be presented the Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany's highest literary honors, at a ceremony in October 2018. The prize comes with an award of 50,000 euros.[8]

Works
Terézia Mora in 2009.

Prose
  • Strange matter, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 978-3-498-04471-8
  • Alle Tage, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-630-87185-1
  • The only man on the continent, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87271-1
  • The monster, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87365-7
  • Love among aliens, narratives. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87319-0

Poetry lectures
  • Do not die, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87451-7
  • The secret text. Salzburger Stefan branch Poetikvorlesung, special number publishing house, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85449-451-5

Screenplays
  • The Ways of Water in Erzincan, feature film, 30 min. (1998)
  • Boomtown / End of the City, feature film, 30 min. (1999)
  • The Alibi, screenplay for a thriller shown in German TV,[9] 90 min. (2000)

Plays
  • Something like that (2003)

Audiobooks
  • Miss June Ruby (2005)

Essays
  • About the drastic, in: BELLA triste No. 16 (2006)

Translations
  • Als nur die Tiere lebten (2014), translation of Amikor még csak az állatok éltek, (2012), by Zsófia Bán.
  • Abendschule – Ein Fibel für Erwachsene (2012), translation of Esti iskola – Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek, (2007), by Zsófia Bán

References
  1. "Terézia Mora – Was bedeutet die Zweisprachigkeit für Ihr Schreiben?". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. Krekeler, Elmar (7 October 2013). "Deutscher Buchpreis: Terézia Mora – Eine Frau schreibt sich in die Freiheit". Die Welt. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Akademie – Presse – Neue Mitglieder". www.deutscheakademie.de (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. "Roman "Das Ungeheuer": Terézia Mora erhält Deutschen Buchpreis". Spiegel Online. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  5. "Terézia Mora wins the German Book Prize 2013 for her novel "Das Ungeheuer"" (Press release). Deutscher Buch Preis. 7 October 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
  6. NDR. "Roswitha-Preis 2018 geht an Terézia Mora" (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  7. "Terezia Mora erhält Georg-Büchner-Preis". news.ORF.at (in German). 3 July 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  8. "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis". www.deutscheakademie.de.
  9. "Das Alibi" – via www.imdb.com.
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