Gabor G Gyukics

gabor g. gyukics (b. 1958) poet, jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of 11 books of original poetry, 6 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Czech, 1 in Bulgarian and 19 translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József (2006), Green Integer Press and They'll Be Good for Seed: Anthology of Hungarian Poetry (2021) (in English, both with co-translator Michael Castro) White Pine Press and an anthology of North American...See more

gabor g. gyukics (b. 1958) poet, jazz poet, literary translator born in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of 11 books of original poetry, 6 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Arabic, 1 in Czech, 1 in Bulgarian and 19 translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József (2006), Green Integer Press and They'll Be Good for Seed: Anthology of Hungarian Poetry (2021) (in English, both with co-translator Michael Castro) White Pine Press and an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian titled Medvefelh a város felett (2015) Scolar Publishing. He writes his poems in English (which is his second language) and Hungarian. He lived in Holland for two years before moving to the US where he lived from 1988-2002. At present, he resides in Szeged, Hungary. His poetic works and translations have been published in hundreds of magazines and anthologies in English, Hungarian, and other languages worldwide. He is a recipient of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) residency in Canada in 2011.a hermit has no plural, a collection of poems in English, was published by Singing Bone Press in the fall of 2015. His latest book in Hungarian titled végigtapint was published by Lector Press in May 2018. In September 2020, he received the Hungary Beat Poet Laureate Lifetime award by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. USA. See less