Evelin Márton | Hungary

Evelin Marton (b. 1980) is a writer, journalist, and editor associated with the literary magazine Helikon. She studied art history at Babeș–Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and in her youth trained as an athlete. She lived for many years in Bucharest, but as she puts it: “My homeland is language; I can take it with me wherever I go, because it lives within me.” She made her debut in 2008 with the short story collection Bonjour Leibowitz, followed by the collection Macskaméz (Cat Honey, 2011), the novels Papírszív (Paper Heart, 2012) and Szalamandrák éjszakái (Nights of the Salamander, 2015, later translated into Romanian), and most recently Farkashab (Wolf Foam, 2022). She is the recipient of several awards, including the László Csíki Prize (2016), the Award for Contributions to Contemporary Hungarian Culture in Transylvania (2017), and the Zsigmond Kemény Fellowship (2019).