“Translating (SF) from Hungarian” by Peter Sherwood My first translations from Hungarian appeared in my school’s magazine in the late 1960s and the most recent last month, so I have quite a lot of experience and thus quite a lot to say, about translating from Hungarian into English. And I taught Hungarian at universities in
The Nightmare (1916) by Mihály Babits, translated by Eva Racz (Corvina Books, 1966). “A Nightmare, the English title of what the original translates as The Stork-Caliph in reference to an 1826 German fairy tale in imitation of Arabian Nights-style fables, is a story of psychological fantasy (… it belongs rather to the Decadent tradition of spiritual alienation
The Sinistra Zone (1992) by Ádám Bodor, translated by Paul Olchváry (New Directions, 2013) “Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself “a simple wayfarer,” but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under the wing of the military zone’s commander, Andrei is first assigned to guard the blueberries that
SHORT STORIES “The Flowering” by Soyeon Jeong, translated from the Korean by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1. “In Search of Your Memories,” by Nian Yu, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1. “The Last Journey” by Florin Purluca, translated from the Romanian by the
