Attila Bartis Explained

Attila Bartis
Birth Date:22 January 1968
Birth Place:Târgu Mureș, Romania
Language:Hungarian
Citizenship:Hungary
Education:Bálint György Újságíró Iskola (1990–91)
Notable Works:Tranquility (2001)
Children:2
Relatives:Ferenc Bartis (father)
Awards:Attila József Prize (2005)
Years Active:1995–present

Attila Bartis (born 1968) is a Romanian-born Hungarian writer, photographer, dramatist and journalist. He received the Attila József Prize in 2005. His books have been translated into over 20 different languages.[1] In 2001, he published his second novel, Tranquility, which was adapted into film in 2008. In 2017, he became a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

Early life and education

Attila Bartis was born in 1968 in Târgu Mureș, in the Transylvania region of Romania. His parents were (1936–2006) and Margit Gherasim. Ferenc, his father, was a writer, poet and journalist. His family were part of the Hungarian minority of Romania. Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Ferenc was imprisoned in Gherla Prison but was given amnesty by Nicolae Ceaușescu seven years later and released. Attila grew up drawing, painting, photographing and writing poems and short stories. His mother, who played the violin, died in the summer of 1983. In 1984, sixteen-year-old Attila and his father were stripped of their Romanian citizenship and presented with stateless passports, and advised to leave for Hungary. Attila moved with his father to Budapest. Attila graduated from a gymnasium in Pest. Between 1990 and 1991, he studied photography at the of the (MÚOSZ). He worked as a photographer and in a used bookstore.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Career

Writing

In 1995, at the age of twenty-seven, he published his debut novel, A séta. In 1998, his debut short story collection, A kéklő pára, was published. Bartis is perhaps best known for his novel Tranquility (Hungarian: A nyugalom), which was published in 2001. Tranquility was adapted into film, titled Nyugalom (2008). The film was directed by Róbert Alföldi and stars Dorottya Udvaros, Zalán Makranczi, Dorka Gryllus and Judit Hernádi.[3] Tranquility was translated into English by Imre Goldstein in 2008. It was the first time his work had been translated into English.[6] Goldstein's translation won the Best Translated Book Award (2009).[7]

For one year, Bartis wrote short stories in the feuilleton of magazine Élet és Irodalom, publishing one story each month. In 2005, he published A Lázár apokrifek, a collection of the twelve short stories he wrote for the magazine.[8] [9]

In 2010, Bartis and poet István Kemény published a book, titled Amiről lehet, which features conversations from interviews they conducted of each other.[10] In 2010, he published Tizenegy novella, an anthology consisting of eleven of Bartis' short stories, all of which were previously published in A kéklő pára and A Lázár apokrifek, with the exception of the story "Gyergyó éghajlata".[11]

In 2019, Bartis published Az eltűnt idő nyoma, a collection of diary entries and "sticky notes".[12]

In the early 2000s, Bartis spent time living abroad, with a DAAD scholarship in Berlin, Germany, and then Java, Indonesia for a while. His third novel, A vége, was published in 2015. It was partly written while he lived in Indonesia.[3]

Bartis has received several awards, including the 1997, the 2002 and the 2005 Attila József Prize. In 2006, he was awarded A Magyar Köztársasági Érdemrend lovagkeresztje. In 2017, he became a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.[3] [13]

His books have been translated into English, Arabic, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Norwegian, Estonian, Serbian, Dutch, Italian, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian and Uyghur.[13]

Photography

As a photographer, his photographs have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions.[13] [14] Bartis' first breakthrough in photography was in 1996, when his Az Engelhard-hagyaték photography exhibit was exhibited at the Műcsarnok-Dorottya Galéria in Budapest. The exhibit featured portraits of writers which were paired with portraits of women and each of the twenty-four writers wrote a poem or short story for their respective female portrait. The exhibition was later a success at Literaturhaus in Frankfurt, Germany in 1999. Az Engelhard-hagyaték was also later exhibited at in Warsaw in 2006. In 1998, his Photo Pygmalion exhibit was shown at Vintage Galéria in Budapest.[3]

In 2010, Bartis published a photo-book titled A csöndet úgy, featuring 365 low-resolution photos taken with a mobile phone from January 2005 to December 2008.[15] In 2016, he published a photo-book, titled A világ leírása, részlet, with text by István Kemény. The photos were exhibited at Deák Erika Galéria in Budapest in 2016. In 2018, he published a photo-book, titled A szigeteken, with text by Katharina Narbutovič, Zsolt Petrányi and Attila Szűcs. It was his largest photo-book to date, featuring photographs taken between 2014 and 2017, mostly in Java, around Yogyakarta in Indonesia. The photos were exhibited at Mai Manó Ház in Budapest in 2018.

Dramas

Bartis adapted Tranquility into a dramatic play, titled Anyám, Kleopátra, which premiered at the National Theatre in Budapest in 2003. The play was directed by Dezső Garas and starred Dorottya Udvaros. Bartis made his debut as a theater director in 2016 and directed his play Rendezés at the National Theatre in Târgu Mureș, Romania. The drama commemorated the victims of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. It was also presented at the Comedy Theatre of Budapest in 2017.[3]

Personal life

Bartis has lived in Budapest since 1984, and has partly lived in Yogyakarta (Java, Indonesia) since 2014.[13]

He married in 1990. His daughter was born in 1990, and his son was born in 1993.[3] [16]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Plays

Non-fiction

Photo-books

Exhibitions

Adaptations

Theatre

Year Title Theatre Location Stage director
2003 Anyám, Kleopátra Budapest, Hungary [37]
2009 Romlás Budapest, Hungary [38]
2013 Prapadul [39]
2014 Meine Mutter, Kleopatra! [40]
2015 A nyugalom Târgu Mureș, Romania [41]
2016 Rendezés Târgu Mureș, Romania Attila Bartis [42]
2017 Rendezés Budapest, Hungary [43]

Film

Awards and honours

Scholarships

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Attila Bartis . Deák Erika Galéria . 29 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Bartis Attila . Írólap . https://web.archive.org/web/20181004105438/http://bartis.irolap.hu/hu/eletrajz . 4 October 2018 . 29 March 2020.
  3. Web site: Visszapillantó tükör – Bartis Attila 50 éves . 21 January 2018 . NullaHatEgy . 29 March 2020.
  4. Web site: Nem döntés kérdése, hogy mit ír az ember . Tóth . Hajnal . 2 March 2018 . Várad.ro . 31 March 2020.
  5. Web site: Az egyik legismertebb kortárs magyar író volt a nagyváradi Törzsasztal vendége . Fried . Noémi Lujza . 24 February 2018 . Maszol.ro . 31 March 2020.
  6. Web site: Fiction Book Review: Tranquility by Attila Bartis, Author, Imre Goldstein, Translator . 3 November 2008 . . 29 March 2020.
  7. Web site: Attila Bartis and Brian Evenson « Three Percent. 2020-09-06. en.
  8. Web site: Az ember, aki nem látott csodát . Harci . Andor . 19 January 2006 . Litera . 29 March 2020.
  9. Web site: Ma: Bartis Attila . 20 May 2013 . Szeretlek Magyarország . 29 March 2020.
  10. Web site: As You Can . Modor . Bálint . 4 May 2011 . KuK - Kultúra és Kritika . . 29 March 2020.
  11. Web site: Tizenegy novella · Bartis Attila · Könyv . moly.hu . 29 March 2020.
  12. Web site: Az idő mélyebb és felszínesebb nyomai . Décsy . Eszter . 1 November 2019 . PRAE.HU . 30 March 2020.
  13. Web site: Bartis Attila . Szépírók Társasága . 29 March 2020.
  14. Web site: Bartis Attila életrajz . Mai Manó Ház . 29 March 2020.
  15. Web site: Hogy olvassuk vagy miért ne a csöndet úgy? . Levente . Pál Dániel . 29 December 2010 . PRAE.HU . 29 March 2020.
  16. Web site: "Abszurditás lenne, ha tagadnám a prózám személyességét" – Beszélgetés Bartis Attilával . 16 November 2015 . NullaHatEgy . 29 March 2020.
  17. Web site: A séta - JAK-füzetek 76. (Budapest, 1995) . Szaktárs . 31 March 2020.
  18. Web site: Tranquility . . 29 March 2020.
  19. Web site: A vége . Magvető Kiadó . 29 March 2020.
  20. Web site: The End . . 18 January 2024.
  21. Web site: Bartis Attila - A kéklő pára - Novellák (1995-1998) . Múzeum Antikvárium . 31 March 2020.
  22. Web site: A Lázár - apokrifek . Magvető Könyvkiadó . 31 March 2020.
  23. Web site: Bartis Attila: Tizenegy novella . Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár . 31 March 2020.
  24. Web site: Amiről lehet . Magvető Kiadó . 29 March 2020.
  25. Web site: Az eltűnt idő nyoma . Magvető Kiadó . 30 March 2020.
  26. Web site: A csöndet úgy . Magvető Kiadó . 29 March 2020.
  27. Web site: OSzK MNB KÖNYVEK BIBLIOGRÁFIÁJA 2016 - 20. évfolyam, 15. szám Bibliográfiai tételek szakrendben . 29 March 2020.
  28. Web site: A szigeteken . Magvető Kiadó . 29 March 2020.
  29. Web site: A Kulturális Kapcsolatok Intézete Kiállítóterme - Dorottya Galéria kiállításai: 1955–2009 . Műcsarnok . 29 March 2020.
  30. Web site: Rendezvények augusztus 18-tól október 12-ig . Frankfurt'99 . 29 March 2020.
  31. Web site: VINTAGE GALÉRIA Exhibitions archive . VINTAGE GALÉRIA . 29 March 2020.
  32. Web site: "Valamit megsemmisíteni néha nehezebb, mint létrehozni" (Bartis Attila író, fotográfus) . Szőnyei . Tamás . 6 October 1999 . . 29 March 2020.
  33. Web site: Fotográfia és irodalom . 7 September 2007 . Litera . 29 March 2020.
  34. Web site: Kemény István: Szentelt víz . 30 September 2007 . Sófár Portál . 29 March 2020.
  35. Web site: A világ leírása, részlet . 7 April 2016 . Deák Erika Galéria . 29 March 2020.
  36. Web site: Bartis Attila: A szigeteken . Mai Manó Ház . 29 March 2020.
  37. Web site: Anyám, Kleopátra . . 31 March 2020.
  38. Web site: Sztrókay András: Kortársunk, a romlás . Sztrókay . András . February 2010 . Színház.net . 31 March 2020.
  39. Web site: Scriitori in centru: Ioana Parvulescu, Attila Bartis si Filip Florian au vorbit despre amestecul fictiunii in realitate . 28 October 2013 . . 31 March 2020.
  40. Web site: Ja, so haben wir gelebt vor der Wende . Affenzeller . Margarete . 14 March 2014 . . 31 March 2020.
  41. Web site: A nyugalom . . 31 March 2020.
  42. Web site: Rendezés . . 31 March 2020.
  43. Web site: Rendezés . . 31 March 2020.
  44. Web site: Alföldi Róbert: Nyugalom . Horeczky . Krisztina . 3 February 2008 . film.hu . 31 March 2020.
  45. Web site: Nyugalom . Nemzeti Filmintézet . 31 March 2020.
  46. Web site: A Nyugalom kapta a legjobb fordítás díját Amerikában . 20 February 2009 . . . 31 March 2020.
  47. Web site: Állami kitüntetések az 1956. október 23-i forradalom 50. évfordulója alkalmából . 20 October 2006 . Nemzeti Erőforrás Minisztérium . 31 March 2020.
  48. Web site: A Magyar Művészetért Díj 2009-ben . MEK (Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár) . 207 . 31 March 2020.
  49. Web site: Best Translated Book 2008 Longlist: Tranquility by Attila Bartis « Three Percent. 2020-09-28. en.
  50. Web site: Szőcs Géza kultúráért felelős államtitkár átadta a Szép Ernő-jutalmakat . 22 September 2010 . Nemzeti Erőforrás Minisztérium . 31 March 2020.
  51. Web site: Megvannak a Libri irodalmi díj nyertesei . 26 May 2016 . Fidelio.hu . 31 March 2020.
  52. Web site: Libri irodalmi díj: vaskos regényt díjazott a közönség . 25 May 2016 . . 31 March 2020.
  53. Web site: Művészeti kitüntetéseket adtak át március 15. alkalmából . . 13 March 2018 . . 29 March 2020.
  54. Web site: Korábbi díjazottak listája . . 31 March 2020.
  55. Web site: Attila Bartis . . 31 March 2020.
  56. Web site: Bemutatkoztak a külföldi intézetek új vezetői . 5 July 2005 . kultúra.hu . . 31 March 2020.
  57. Web site: Biography: Bartis, Attila . . 31 March 2020.
  58. Web site: Foreign female writers get the feel of Shanghai . Minji . Yao . 8 October 2010 . . 31 March 2020.
  59. Web site: 2012年中国天津滨海新区国际作家写作营开营 . 5 September 2012 . . 31 March 2020.
  60. Web site: 国际写作营：文化需要慢下来，沉下来 . 18 September 2012 . . . 31 March 2020.

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