Laszlo Toth

* Budapest, September 26, 1949 / poet, editor ; ; He lived in Czechoslovakia between 1954-1986. In the meantime, he was a journalist and editor of Csallóköz between 1969-1975 and Irodalmi Szemle between 1975-1981. He was a dramaturge of the Hungarian Regional Theatre in Komárom between 1983-1985. He returned to Hungary in 1986. Between 1992-1993, he was the publishing director of the Széphalom Book Workshop and the editor of the World Federation. From 1994, he was the reading editor of Iskolakultúra. Between 1997-2000 and 2002-2004, he was the Budapest office manager of the Kalligram Book Publishing House. In 1990, he founded a minority studies journal called Régió, and in 1998, a book publishing house called Ister, of which he is also the managing director. Since 2005, he has lived in Slovakia again. Since 2011, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Bratislava Literary Review. ; ; Works: ; ; The Imitation of Voices (poems, 1971) ; From Ithaka to Ithaka (poems, 1975) ; Crossing (poems, 1977) ; My Ákombákom (fable, 1980) ; Approach (anthology, with Ferenc Kulcsár, 1980) ; Debate and Confession (interviews, 1982) ; The Victim (drama, 1982) ; Istentelen szinjáték (poems, 1983) ; The City of Fools (story anthology, 1983); Ignition Point (verse anthology, 1984); Fifth Floor, or A Paradise in Bugyra (poems, 1985); Hole in the Sky (children's poems and stories, 1985); How to Fly? (story, 1986); Nightly with Nothing, or Scenes Without Action (selected and new poems, 1987); On the Edge of the Highway. Hungarian Poets in Czechoslovakia, 1919-1989 (selection, afterword, 1990); Like a Bird Out of the Nest... The Literature of the Years of Homelessness in Czechoslovakia 1945-1949. (edited with Imre Molnár, 1990); The Wind Devil (folktale selection, 1991); Parallels, Digressions (essays, studies, 1991); The Difficulties of Understanding. Beginning Poets of Komárom-Esztergom County. (1992); Reporting on the Loss of a Country. Hungarian Storytellers in Czechoslovakia 1919-1989. (selected, edited, afterword, notes, 1992); Forgotten Years (essays, articles, 1993); Three-volume (poems, 1994); The Clues Seeker (literary history sketch and reader, with Gyula Bodnár, 1994); Everything is Strange (children's poems, 1995); Test recordings of Hungarian literature and culture in (Czechoslovakia) (essays, studies, with Gusztáv Tamás Filep, 1995); Focus 1970–1995 (1995); Bells ringing, or The Flesh Clown (selected poems, 1996); Speech and silence. Eleven conversations. László Csiki, András Fodor, János Géczi, Endre Kukorelly, András Petőcz, György Somlyó, József Tornai, Árpád Tőzsér, Péter Vasadi, István Vörös, Tibor Zalán, JAMK–Új Forrás Szerk, Tatabánya, 1996 (Új Forrás books) ; "...as the apostles once were". The history of Hungarian theater in Komárom from the beginnings to 1945 (1997); In the footsteps of Déryné. The history of Hungarian theatre in Komárom from 1945 to the present day (1998); Fifty mirrors (selected poems, 1999); History of public culture (studies, 2000); The Green Hunter (folktale adaptations, 2002); Transformation, or the "here" and the "there" (collected poems and interpretations 1967–2003, 2003); The witch's vacuum cleaner (story novel, 2004); Lapszél (essays, confessions, 2005); The prince put to the test (folktale adaptations, 2006); Hatzemközt, or Farewell to the Age – anno 1989. Eight conversations with Slovak and Slovak-born Hungarian writers in the final hours of a system. (2006); The Enchanted Wizard (old-new tales, stories, 2007); Hungarian Folktales (after János Erdélyi, 2007); On a Rope, or As the Sky... (poems, 2008); Magical Tales from the East (tale adaptations, after translations by Tamás Soós, 2008); Today God Himself..., or Variations on Creation (selected poems, 1968–2008, 2009); Notes of a Self-Collector, or Ideas, Obsessions, Topics (essays, essays, 2009); The Most Beautiful Poems of László Tóth (2010); Homeless. Documents for the history of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia 1945-1948/1949, Kalligram, Bratislava, 2014; The Man of the Word. In the Footsteps of the Past, Vámbéry Civic Association, Dunaszerdahely, 2014; The Stolen Grandmother and Other Old and New Tales, Kalligram, Bratislava, 2015; Borderbreakers. Self-portrait – in others 1. From the Hard Drive of Memory I., Gondolat, Budapest, 2015; ...is of great benefit to the Theatre. Old and new theatre history essays for the past of Komárom and Bratislava, Gondolat, Budapest, 2016; Attila Simon–László Tóth: A great politician of small steps. József Szent-Ivány, the politician and cultural organizer, Association of History Teachers–Forum Minority Research Institute, Somorja, 2016; Wittgenstein's spokesman, Gondolat, Bp., 2018; ; Translations: ; ; O. Zahradník: Small Advertisement (play, Bratislava, 1978) ; J. Pavlovič: Lenke the Goat's Tale Book (tales, Bratislava, 1982) ; J. Tibenský: The Queen's Librarian (monograph, Bratislava, 1985) ; L. Feldek: Aunty Food (comedy, Bratislava, 1985) ; J. Čarek: Colorful World (pamphlet, Bratislava, 1985) ; M. Holub: Interferon or about the theater (poems, with István Vörös, Budapest, 1997) ; St. J. Lec: Uncombed thoughts (aphorisms, Budapest, 2000) ; Vl. Holan: Walls (poems with Zoltán Csehy, Anikó Polgár, Árpád Tőzsér, István Vörös, Bratislava 2007) ; Six rabbits in a bag (Slovak folk riddles, 2009) ; ; Awards: ; ; Slovak Literary Fund Award (1975, 1977) ; Győry Derzső Award (1986) ; Soros scholarship holder (1986, 1992, 1998) ; Zoltán Fábry Award (1992) ; Bibliotheca Hungarica Award (1994); IRAt Award (1995); Esterházy János Memorial Medal (1996); Artisjus Literary Award (1996); Imre Forbáth Award (2004); Vilmos Péterffy Award (2010); Gáspár Nagy Literary and Art Award (2015)