George Szirtes is a British poet and translator from Hungarian into English. Originally from Hungary, he has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life after coming to the country as a refugee at the age of eight. His translations from Hungarian poetry, fiction, and drama have won numerous awards, including the Best Translated Book Award (2013) and the Mann Booker International Award (2015).
Photograph © George Szirtes
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Poetry
If we indeed have souls
by Zsuzsa Takács
In this poem by Hungarian Zsuzsa Takács, translated by poet George Szirtes, Eastern European trauma transforms into the spectacle of disaster tourism.
