Dezső Monoszlóy

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter University in 1946. Between 1947 and 1968 he lived in Bratislava, where he was a miner, sailor, bricklayer, teacher, radio editor, director of a publishing company, Hungarian secretary of the Czechoslovak Writers’ Union, editor of the Literary Review. In 1968 he emigrated to Novi Sad. In 1970 he moved to Austria, where he lived in Vienna. Since 1986 he has been a professor.

Works by

• Dezső Matzke: Message from Heaven; Kultúra ny., Pécs, 1941
• War of the Buttons (poems, 1944)
• Burnt Sienna (novel, 1944)
• We only live once (poems, 1959)
• I have two daughters. Narrative poem ; Slovak Literature-Móra, Bratislava-Bp., 1962
• Feverish Love (poems, 1963)
• Charge symmetry (poems, 1965)
• Under the Tram (short stories, 1965)
• Kiss (poems, 1966)
• The Golden Age. Selected poems ; Tatran-Szépirodalmi, Bratislava-Bp., 1967
• Tattooed Angels (novel, 1967)
• Gergő Mókus Mergő and the Forest (children’s poems, 1967)
• Desert (short stories, 1968)
• Death of a Millionaire (novel, 1969)
• Golden Bowl (poems, Aurora Publishers, 1973)
• Escape from Sodom (trilogy of novels, 1975)
  • Jacob’s Ladder
  • Noah’s Ark
• Last hunt; Püski-Corvin, New York, 1983
• Die fünf Jahreszeiten der Liebe (The Five Seasons of Love, 1989)
• Caligula-Bar (poems, 1990)
• Stargazer. Selected short stories ; Életünk Könyvek-Hungarian Writers’ Union, Szombathely, 1992(The Pearls of Western Hungarian Literature)
• Wild goose-bearing rare tree (poems, 1993)
• Mosaic. Selected poems ; Széphalom Könyvműhely, Bp., 1993
• Escape from Sodom; 2nd rev. ed.; AB-art, Bratislava, 1994
• Praise for the pit. Short story ; Életünk-Hungarian Writers’ Association of Western Hungary, Szombathely, 1994(Életünk books)
• The smell of Sunday (poems, 2000)
• I am myself East and West (selected poems, 2001)
• The Day After My Death (novel, 2001)
• Päť ročných období lásky (Five seasons of love); Slovak translation. Jitka Rožňová; Bratislava [Pozsony], AB-art, 2001
• The Ballad of the Goodly Fallen (2002)
• Balada šľaktrafených (Ballad of the Good Stricken); translated into Slovak by Zorán Ardamica, AB-art, Bratislava [Pozsony], 2003
• On the island of the dead. Selected short stories ; Sun, Dunaszerdahely, 2004(Engraving)
• The Five Seasons of Love; AB-art, Bratislava, 2004(Kangaroo Pocket Books series, 5.)
• Collected poems (2005)
• Bóbita. Selected short stories ; Madách-Posonium, Bratislava, 2009 (Hungarian Antaeus books)