Kálmán Faragó (1978)
About me
I was born in Budapest, and while I grew up outside the city, I’ve been a resident again for a good decade and a half. I’ve studied at the English department of ELTE University, then later acquired a journalist’s degree. A poet and a freelance journalist, I’ve appeared in international anthologies of poetry and in Reader’s Digest, I’ve edited a book of folk tales and am one of the organisers of Budapest’s premier English-language literary event.
Out of my peripheral suburb home I’ve loved the monsters of this city and battled its beauties, climbed the loud cellars and dived to the silent rooftops, sweated in its spider-limbed summers and froze in its boar-maned winters, while I grew a beard, made friends with artists, foreigners and trees.
About Budapest
As for what I think about Budapest, well, I love the tone of the noise, the fury of cars, a bar’s friendly voice, from the attics the stars, the midnight between walls, the random concrete art, the gleaming office halls and the city’s damn heart.
