Péter Nádas

Péter Nádas, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1942, worked as a press photographer before he became a writer. His first book of stories was published in 1967 and his best-selling novel, A Book of Memories, was published in 1986. Nádas is counted among the most important authors of our time and is the recipient of numerous prizes including the Prize for European Literature from the Austrian Government, the Leipzig Book Prize, and the Kossuth Prize.