Jolánka Kovács

Born on 13 March 1958 in Nagybecskerek. He graduated from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the University of Novi Sad. Lives in Muzsla, librarian of the local Mihály Szervó Primary School, artistic director of the János Sziveri Art Theatre in Muzsla.

From 1994 to 1998 he was a staff member of the Bánáti Newspaper, published as a supplement to the Seven Days, and from 1998 to 2002 he was a staff member of the Family Circle. From 2005 to 2009, she edited the children’s programme “Körtemuzsika” (Fruit Music) for Zeppelin Radio in Muzla. From 2004 to 2016, she was a proofreader and editorial board member of the literary and art magazine Sikoly.

From 1980 to 1998, he was a Hungarian mother tongue teacher at the Brotherhood Unit Primary School in Erzsébetlak. From 1998 to 2000, she taught mother tongue teaching at the Szervó Mihály Elementary School in Muzla, where she has worked as a school librarian since 2000.

So far, he has published two short story collections, a collection of stories and seventeen books of literary translations (from Serbian into Hungarian and from Hungarian into Serbian).

His short stories and translations have been published in magazines in Vojvodina, Serbia, Hungary, Upland and Romania.