Benedek Anna: „…mit tesz a fény…” Nádas Péter fotográfiái, 1959-2003 (Budapest, 2012)
Nádas Péter életrajza
Péter Nádas - a biographical outline 14 October 1942 Born in Budapest 1 955 Mother dies 1 956 Studies at Lajos Petrik Vocational School for Industrial Chemistry; quits before finishing school 1 958 Father commits suicide; lives with his guardian, Magda Aranyossi 1 961 Graduates from a two-year journalism school as a certified photographer; starts working at Nők Lapja (Women's Weekly] as a trainee photographer; meets his would-be wife, Magda Salamon 1 967 His first collection of two short stories A Biblia [The Bible] is published 1 968 Moves to Kisoroszi, where he writes Egy családregény vége (The End of a Family Story) 1 973 Starts working on his grand novel, Emlékiratok könyve (A Book of Memories) 1 972-1 974 Spends several months in East Berlin on three different scholarships 1 974-1 979 Editor at the magazine Gyermekünk (Our Child) 1 98 0 A collection of three of his plays is published - Takarítás, Találkozás, Temetés (Cleaning, Encounter, Burial) 1 981-1982 On scholarship in West Berlin; in the meantime, with his wife Magda Salamon he buys a house in a small village, Gombosszeg in Zala County Summer 1 989 Spends four days of recorded conversation with his Swedish journalist friend Richard Swartz, who lives in Austria - their joint book Párbeszéd (Dialogue) is based on their conversation 1991 Awarded the Österreichischer Staatspreis für Europäische Literatur Prize 1 992 Awarded the Kossuth Prize April 1 993 Has a heart attack and is brought back from clinical death; Nádas deals with this near-death experience decades later in his short story Saját halál (Own Death) 1993 Elected a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts 1 995 Awarded the Grand Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 1 998 Awarded Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger Prize for the French edition of Emlékiratok könyve (A Book of Memories) as the best foreign language publication of the year; for his achievements in the field of literature he is awarded The Vilenica Prize of the Slovene Writers' Association; he is a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy 1999 Valamennyi fény (Some Light - photographs) is published 2002-2003 Receives the scholarship of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2 003 Awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in Prague; The Hungarian House of Photography in Mai Manó House organises an exhibition of his photographs titled Egy vadkörtefa (A Wild Pear Tree) followed by similar exhibitions in Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland 2004 Following the first German edition published in 2002, his book Saját halál (Own Death) including 163 photographs is published in Hungary 2005 Nádas's grand novel Párhuzamos történetek (Parallel Stories), on which he worked for 18 years, is published in three volumes 2006 Elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts 2011 The German and English editions of Párhuzamos történetek (Parallel Stories) are published 2012 Awarded the Brücke Berlin literature and translation prize with his translator Christina Viragh September 2012 An exhibition titled In der Dunkelkammer des Schreibens: Übergänge zwischen Text, Bild und Denken (In the Darkroom of Writing: Transitions between Text, Image and Thought) opens in Kunsthaus Zug in Switzerland; Nádas is co-curator of the exhibition, which is based on his selection of his own and other Hungarian artists' photographs 38
