Ferenc Barnás

Ferenc Barnás is a Hungarian writer and author. Barnás studied in Debrecen, Budapest and Munich before graduating with degrees in Hungarian language, literature, and aesthetics from Eötvös Loránd University, where he also earned a doctoral degree for his study of Herman Hesse. Barnás then went on to teach before beginning a career as a freelance writer, and a job at the Ernst Museum in Budapest.

Ferenc Barnás is the author of four novels in his native Hungarian, including The Ninth (2005), longlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award in the US; and Másik halál (Another Death, 2013), which won Best Book of the Year in Hungary and in forthcoming in English translation from Seagull Books. He has won three of Hungary’s top literary honours, including the Sándor Márai Prize. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Indonesian. He and his wife live in Jakarta, Indonesia.