Austin
Wagner

(1990, USA) is an American living and working in Budapest as a literary translator and English and mathematics teacher in alternative high school education. After studying mathematics at university and working as a data analyst in the US, he moved to Budapest in 2017 to study Hungarian and Hungarian-English translation at the Balassi Institute. Several of his translations can be found at Hungarian Literature Online, where he is now also an editor.

Photograph © Austin Wagner

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