Kata GYÖRFI (Romania)

Kata GYÖRFI is a Hungarian poet and bilingual playwright from Romania who has been publishing for more than ten years. In 2019, her first book of poems was published under the title Te alszol mélyebben (You sleep deeper), which was nominated for the György Petri literary award and was in the top ten nominees of the Péter Horváth Literary Scholarship. Her plays in Romanian and Hungarian have been performed and translated since 2017. Her poems depict a post-apocalyptic natural world. In her dramas, she is interested in loneliness, circumventing the rules of being among people, and what those people are like who for some reason do not automatically fit in, who think of themselves as a mistake in the seemingly perfect system.

In addition to her literary career, she studied philosophy (BA at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Institute of Hungarian Philosophy), aesthetics (MA at Eötvös Loránd University), and contemporary theatre theory (MA at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Theatre, studies interrupted), during which time she focused on the phenomenology of theatre and post-absurdism as an aesthetic category in post-communist Central and Eastern European countries.

She is currently represented by Jelenkor Publishing House in Hungary.