Mátyás Dunajcsik
Mátyás Dunajcsik is a queer writer and performer who writes prose, theatre and poetry in Hungarian, English and, more recently, German. He was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, where he studied aesthetics (art theory) and French literature and worked in publishing. He emigrated in 2014 and initially spent two years in Reykjavík, where he studied Icelandic language and literature on a state scholarship, before settling in Germany. His literary work has been honoured with numerous prizes in Hungary and several international scholarships, including the Junge Akademie of the Akademie der Künste (2009, Berlin). He has published two collections of short stories and a children's book in Hungarian, which he later adapted for the stage himself. His first novel Víziváros (‘Water City’) was published in 2021 and a collection of his Hungarian poems is due to appear at the end of 2024.