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About Agnes Lehoczky

Agnes Lehoczky (1976) is an Hungarian-born poet scholar and translator originally from Budapest. She has two short poetry collections in Hungarian Station X (2000) and Medallion (2002) published by Universitas Budapest. Her first full collection in English Budapest to Babel was published in 2008 and her second collection Rememberer in 2012 by Egg Box Publishing. She was the winner of the Arthur Welton Poetry Award 2010 the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2010 in poetry and the inaugural winner of the Jane Martin Prize for Poetry at Girton College Cambridge in 2011. She was Hungary's representative poet for Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre during London's Cultural Olympiad in Summer 2012. Her collection of essays on the poetry of Agnes Nemes Nagy Poetry: the Geometry of Living Substance was published in 2011 by Cambridge Scholars and a libretto of hers was commissioned by Writers' Centre Norwich for The Voice Project at Norwich Cathedral as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2011. A sequence of her prose poems Parasite of Town on psycho-geographic aspects of Sheffield was commissioned by Citybooks Sheffield in 2011. She co-edited Sheffield Anthology; Poems from the City Imagined (Smith/Doorstop 2012) with Adam Piette Ann Sansom and Peter Sansom featuring 101 poets from Carol Ann Duffy to Simon Armitage Roy Fisher and Peter Riley. Her work has recently appeared in The World Record eds. Neil Astley and Anna Selby (Bloodaxe 2012) In Their Own Words eds. Helen Ivory and George Szirtes (Salt 2012) and Dear World & Everyone in It New Poetry in the UK ed. Nathan Hamilton (Bloodaxe 2013). She currently works as a lecturer and teaches creative writing at the University of Sheffield.