Peter Nadas

Péter Nádas (born 1942 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer and photographer. Hungarian censorship delayed the publication of his first novel, “The End of a Family Story,” until 1977; its German translation appeared in 1979. His major works include “A Book of Memories,” “Parallel Stories,” “A Lovely Tale of Photography” and “Fire and Knowledge” (the English titles may vary by edition). Nádas received, among other honors, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1991), the Kossuth Prize (1992), the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (1995), the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (1998), and the Franz Kafka Prize (2003). In 2005, he curated the exhibition “Kindred Souls: Hungarian Photography 1914–2003.”