József Ács (born 1965) is a Hungarian writer. Ács studied physics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He completed his studies in 1990 and has since worked as a programmer. In 2004, he received the Nizzai-Kavics Poetry Prize, and since his poetry, prose, short plays and essays have appeared regularly in the monthly magazine Liget.[1] Among his works are Helyben vagyunk (1993), Világítóudvar (2001), Orfeum az alvilágba (2005) and Történetek életre-halálra (2008).