Dorka
Graf

Dorka Graf (1989, Hungary) is a writer, literary critic, and aesthetic theorist. Her debut novel, Puncs (Punch, Század Publishers, 2019), featuring a bizarre relationship between a young student and her professor, was shortlisted for Hungary’s Margó Prize for best debut prose fiction. Graf teaches creative writing and world literature. Her PhD focuses on the relationship between women and power in contemporary fiction. She is working on her third novel, Éhesek (The Hungry Ones).

Photograph © Csaba Aknay

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Ophelia by Dorka Graf

Closed wards, inertia, and the summer the rivers broke their banks—a meeting between two young people in a cheap bar unearths buried emotion.