Discussion with: Evelin M\u00e1rton \u2013 writer, Daniel Warmuz \u2013 translator, Zo\u015bka Papu\u017canka \u2013 moderator <\/p>\n
What book would you take to a desert island? Evelin M\u00e1rton\u2019s lyrical, grotesque, and darkly humorous novel is a meditation on loneliness, fate, the search for truth, and the struggle with \u201cinsane desires.\u201d The dystopian world of Solea Minor speaks just as easily to the fate of forgotten communities as it does to life in a post-pandemic world exposed to new and looming threats. <\/p>\n Evelin M\u00e1rton<\/strong> (born 1980) is a writer, journalist, and editor for the literary magazine Helikon. She studied art history at Babe\u0219-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and was an athlete in her youth. After living in Bucharest for several years, she declared, “My homeland is language; I can take it with me everywhere, wherever I go, because it lives within me.” Daniel Warmuz <\/strong>(born 1987) is a Polish-Hungarian philologist and a graduate of Jagiellonian University. He spent several years living in Budapest, where he also completed postgraduate studies in literary translation at the Balassi Institute. He researches, translates, and promotes Hungarian literature, and is the author of scholarly articles, essays, and reviews. His interests include contemporary literature, theater, and translation studies. In 2013, he appeared in the theatrical performance 174\/B. Az igazs\u00e1g szolg\u00e1i (174\/B. In the Service of Justice) with the PanoDr\u00e1ma theatre group. <\/em> Warmuz is a two-time winner of the translation competition organized by the S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi Museum of Literature in Budapest (2013, 2015), and recipient of the Adam W\u0142odek Award from the Wis\u0142awa Szymborska Foundation (2019). In 2022, he was awarded the Angelus Central European Literary Award for translators for his Polish rendition of Zolt\u00e1n Mih\u00e1ly Nagy\u2019s novel Satan\u2019s Spawn (Szata\u0144ski pomiot).<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discussion with: Evelin M\u00e1rton \u2013 writer, Daniel Warmuz \u2013 translator, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[],"kraj":[],"typ":[130],"typ-pozamuzyczne":[287,153],"mec_category":[270,268,125],"class_list":["post-10773","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","typ-non-musical-event","typ-pozamuzyczne-2025-en","typ-pozamuzyczne-literature","mec_category-05-07-en","mec_category-2025-en","mec_category-non-musical-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
D\u017cemme chooses an encyclopedia\u2014when not tending to the cemetery, gazing at the endless horizon, or conversing with seals. But Solea Minor<\/strong> is no ordinary deserted island. It\u2019s also home to an eccentric shopkeeper, his feline-like wife, and a host of other strange inhabitants who form their own quirky clans.
This last remnant of Earth, preserved after the end of history, follows rules all its own. But everything changes when a prophecy is fulfilled and the blue-eyed E\u2019Lam arrives. Will he and D\u017cemme find a common language? And will the solitary cemetery keeper dare to believe in miracles?<\/p>\nAbout the authors<\/h2>\n
She debuted in 2008 with the short story collection Bonjour Leibowitz.<\/em> Her other works include Macskam\u00e9z<\/em> (Cat’s Honey, 2011), the novels Pap\u00edrsz\u00edv <\/em>(Paper Heart, 2012) and Szalamandr\u00e1k \u00e9jszak\u00e1i<\/em> (Nights of Salamanders, 2015, translated into Romanian), and most recently Farkashab<\/em> (Wolf Foam, 2022).
M\u00e1rton has received several accolades, including the L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Csiki Award (2016), the Award for Activity for Contemporary Transylvanian Hungarian Culture (2017), and the Zsigmond Kem\u00e9ny Scholarship (2019). <\/p>\n