{"id":4813,"date":"2025-04-24T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T12:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libribookline.com\/ok-kaptak-iden-a-zsoldos-peter-dijakat\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:51:50","slug":"ok-kaptak-iden-a-zsoldos-peter-dijakat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libribookline.com\/en\/ok-kaptak-iden-a-zsoldos-peter-dijakat\/","title":{"rendered":"They received this year’s P\u00e9ter Zsoldos Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The award for best novel went to Anik\u00f3 \u00c1gnes Patonai, while Anita Mosk\u00e1t won in the short story category and Ray Nayler received the jury’s award for best translated novel. The audience award went to Ian Pole for his novel Damned Brotherhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Named after P\u00e9ter Zsoldos, one of the fathers of Hungarian science fiction, the award recognizes the best works of fantasy literature each year in the categories of best novel, short story, and literary translation. This year, the winning works will again receive marketing support from Libri Bookstores.<\/p>\n\n

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P\u00e9ter Zsoldos Award – Photo: 4K Media Studio<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The life’s work of P\u00e9ter Zsoldos (1930\u20131997) is highly regarded not only in Hungarian but also in international science fiction literature: his most popular works have been translated into half a dozen languages, contemporary critics mentioned him alongside Asimov and Lem, and hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold to fans of the genre in Hungarian.<\/p>\n\n

The winners for 2025 are:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n

Novel category \u2013 Anik\u00f3 \u00c1gnes Patonai: Branstetter<\/strong> (privately published)<\/p>\n\n

Short story category \u2013 Anita Mosk\u00e1t: Gyullad\u00e1spont (Flashpoint) (Hungarian Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories of the Year 2024, GABO Publishing House)<\/p>\n\n

Translated work category \u2013 Ray Nayler: Az \u00f3ce\u00e1n szeme (The Eye of the Ocean) (translated by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Sepsi, Agave K\u00f6nyvek)<\/p>\n\n

Audience Award \u2013 Ian Pole: Damned Brotherhood (Style and Technique)<\/p>\n\n

Following an open online nomination process, the following jury selected the winning works from a shortlist compiled based on votes cast by the Hungarian professional community: Vera Benczik, literary scholar; Aletta Borb\u00edr\u00f3, literary scholar and critic; G\u00e1bor Domokos, writer and screenwriter; P\u00e9ter H. Nagy, literary historian; Orsolya Heged\u0171s, literary scholar, J\u00f3zsef Keser\u0171, literary scholar, J\u00f3zsef Lapis, literary historian, P\u00e9ter Krist\u00f3f Makai, literary scholar, Zs\u00f3fia O. R\u00e9ti, literary and cultural researcher, and R\u00e9ka Szil\u00e1rdi, university lecturer, researcher, and literary scholar.<\/p>\n\n

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The winning novels – Photo: 4K Media Studio<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

\u201cThis profoundly serious novel, with its distinctive Hungarian flavor and global outlook, is further proof that Hungarian speculative literature is a living, vibrant tradition, which, year after year, work after work, develops its own strategies for speaking about our shared past and future in the language of fantasy.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 wrote jury member P\u00e9ter Makai in his laudation of the novel Branstetter<\/strong>. \u201cDrawing on the tools of supernatural horror, \u00c1gnes Anik\u00f3 Patonai uses the life story of J\u00e1nos Bolyai, one of the outstanding figures in the development of Hungarian mathematical thought, to testify to the sometimes terrible price of modern man\u2019s intellectual development.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Anita Mosk\u00e1’s text is a complex novella with multiple layers of interpretation. On the one hand, it is a novel literary exploration of the well-known tram problem, namely whether the suffering of an individual is an acceptable price to pay for the well-being of society as a whole. The vulnerability and objectification of the phoenix bird at the center of the text immediately associates this layer with an ecocentric reading; the text can also be interpreted as a critical reflection on the exploitation of nature in the present day and the suffering caused to farm animals. However, through its protagonist, the novella also touches on topics such as the meaning or futility of political activism, the intergenerational transmission of trauma and behavioral patterns, as well as various degrees of self-harm and the ethical implications of self-sacrifice. Anita Mosk\u00e1’s short story is a sensitive text, capable of weaving these multifaceted meanings into a complex and novel fabric that will remain etched in the reader’s mind as an unforgettable experience,”<\/em> said literary scholar Vera Benczik about the winning short story.<\/p>\n\n

Aletta Borb\u00edr\u00f3, one of the judges for the translations, said of the winning work: \u201cThis novel is at once a philosophical thought experiment, an ecological manifesto, and a technological vision of the future. The Eye of the Ocean (Az \u00f3ce\u00e1n szeme)<\/strong> fits into a trend that no longer separates humans, technology, and nature, but rather sensibly points out the analogies that intertwine these themes, finding a common source in the question of intelligence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Ludvig Orsolya Stefanie – Photo: 4K Media Studio<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Ludvig Orsolya Stefanie, Libri’s marketing and communications director, praised this year’s audience award-winning novel with these words: “It is a great pleasure to present the audience award to an author who, thanks to his profound knowledge, excellent sense of style, and, last but not least, exciting storytelling, has been honored with the special attention of our readers. Ian Pole has undoubtedly captivated fans of the genre with his work Damned Brotherhood (K\u00e1rhozott Testv\u00e9ris\u00e9g).<\/strong> I think this is one of the greatest honors a writer can receive.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n

The full text of the jury’s laudations and the list of works nominated for the award are available on the P\u00e9ter Zsoldos Award website<\/a> and Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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