A Book of Memories

Péter Nádas

1986

There was no doubt of it, the dark coat on the rack could mean only one thing: a guest had arrived, an unusual guest at that, because the coat was stern-looking, grim, quite unlike the coat that usually hung on that rack, so shabby and threadbare I didn’t even feel like doing what I usually did when left alone with strange coats in the hallway and…

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Péter Nádas

b. 1942

Novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist, Péter Nádas was born in Budapest. His mother died during his childhood, and his father committed suicide. In 1961 he began his studies in journalism and photography, and later worked as a photojournalist for the magazine Pest Megyei Hírlap. Nádas lived in Berlin for a few years, where he was elected a member of the Akademie der Künste. He has earned the Prize for Hungarian Art (1989), the Kossuth Prize (1992), and the Kafka Prize for Literature (2003).

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