Jun 2, 2008

Andras Maros: novelist and screenwriter


András Maros, an Hungarian writer, and former attendee here, has had his first novel, Lemonade, published.

Born in 1971 in Budapest and Andras has written short stories for Hungarian newspapers, journals and magazines such as Sárkányfű, Élet ÉS Irodalom, Alföld, Mozgó Világ and Jelenkor. His first collection of short stories, Puff, appeared in 2001 and his second Neveket akarok hallani (I would like to hear names) in 2003. Both are published by Palatinus.

Andras also writes screenplays. With Károly Ujj Mészáros he wrote the screenplay for the film rubber man, which was awarded first prize at the Budapest Film Review in 2003.