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Gábor Gyukics prestigious international award

June 6, 2020

Gábor Gyukics was awarded the prestigious Hungary Beat Poet Laureate title. In addition, only four poets from four countries have received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American National Beat Poet Foundation, Inc.

The National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization that stands behind tensions such as the National Beat Poetry Festival , the International Beat Poetry Festival ”or the Kerouac Cafe . Their goal is to preserve and keep in the public consciousness the writings of the beat generation, while at the same time helping a new beat generation to emerge from poets, writers, musicians, and artists.

Gábor Gyukics, a poet-translator, was born in Budapest in 1958. He published more than ten volumes of poetry and one volume of prose. He has translated the works of more than a hundred Hungarian authors into English, and the same number of authors from English into Hungarian, including the poetry of Native Americans. He writes his poems in Hungarian and English. From 1988 to 2002, he lived in the United States. He received the Salvatore Quasimodo Special Prize in 2012 and the Füst Milán Translation Prize in 1999 and 2017. Gábor Gyukics was the guest of the first Dunszt-evening, the recording of the event can be viewed here .

The award will be presented on September 5, with the epidemic likely to be celebrated online.

Cover image: Attila Kovács