Gerevich (1976, Hungary) has published four books of poetry in his native Hungarian, his work has been translated into about two dozen languages. Andrew Fentham received the Stephen Spender Prize in 2017 for the translation of one of his poems. Gerevich has translated a number of English-speaking poets into Hungarian, including Seamus Heaney, Frank O’Hara and Charles Bernstein. He has taught courses in poetry at Vassar College, New York, and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Photograph © András Gerevich
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