Talk with Tibor Noé Kiss – “Gender: Incognito”

Talk with Tibor Noé Kiss – Gender: Incognito

literary event

16 March at 8 p.m.

Club Tiffany, Cultural Centre Q, ACC Metelkova mesto

1000 Ljubljana

In English language

 
Suzana Tratnik will discuss literature with Tibor Noé Kiss, whose debut novel Inkognitó (‘Incognito’) was published in 2010 and translated in Slovene language at ŠKUC Publishing, Lambda collection, in 2019. Kiss belongs to a younger generation of  Hungarian prosaists and has sharply cut into Hungarian literature and society with her writing. Her first novel in which she openly discusses her transgender identity is not only a breathtaking form of self-expression but also an excellent literary work. She is convinced that the only stories worth writing are those that carry objective worth. For her the societal context is at least as important as the artistic. Suzana Tratnik shares the same view, as is evident in her comprehensive body of work. 
 
Books from the Lambda collection, including the novel Incognito, will be sold at the event.

Tibor Noé Kiss (1976) is a Hungarian writer. He studied sociology at the University of Pécs and published her first novel, Inkognitó, at Alexandra Publishing in 2010. It was followed by Aludnod kellene (2014, Magvető), and in 2016, Inkognitó was re-released by Magvető Publishing House. His third novel, Beláthatatlan táj, was published in 2020, also by Magvető. Until now, her novels were translated to Czech, Austrian, Polish, Finnish and Slovenian languages. Inkognito was published in Slovenia in 2019 (Založba ŠKUC), translated by Gabriella Gaál.

He works as a lay-out editor of Jelenkor magazine, she is the responsible editor of Jelenkor Online, and has been a regular publisher of Magyar NarancsMagyar Hírlap in Budapest, and of Új Szó in Bratislava previously. Since 2012, he has been organizing a cultural-literary program series, Irodalmi Diszkó (Literary Disco) in Pécs, has worked as pollster, a newspaper reporter and a football coach for disadvantaged young people. In recent years, she has held writing seminars at several writing camps, and from the fall of 2022 he is mentoring young prose writers in individual training. She is a self-taught photographer.

Prizes: Békés Pál-díj (2015), Baranya megyei Príma-díj (2017), Hazai Attila-díj (2020), Artisjus Irodalmi Díj (2021).

Suzana Tratnik (1963) obtained her BA in sociology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, and her MA in gender anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Ljubljana, where she lives and works as a writer, translator, and essayist. She has been a lesbian activist since 1987, and is a cofounder of Škuc-Lezbična sekcija LL, and a programmer for Ljubljana’s LGBT Film Festival. Tratnik has published seven collections of short stories, six novels, a children’s picture book as well as a monologue, and radio plays. She has also published three non-fiction books on the lesbian movement, literature, and a memoir. The two main themes in her fiction are the marginal destinies in contemporary urban life and presentations of childhood in 60s and 70s Yugoslavia. In 2007 Tratnik received the national Prešeren Foundation Award for Literature for the collection Vzporednice (Parallels, 2005), in 2017 the Novo Mesto Short Story Award for best short fiction for the collection Noben glas (No Voice, 2016), and in 2018 the Desetnica Award for best youth fiction for novel Tombola ali življenje (Bingo or Life!, 2017). A selection of Tratnik’s stories were published in English translation in Games with Greta and Other Stories (Dalkey Archive Press, 2016). Tratnik’s books and short stories have been translated in more than twenty languages.

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Info

Organization: 24th International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns

Coproduction: ŠKUC , Cultural Centre Q ŠKUC

Co-financed by: City of Ljubljana, Department of Culture

Contacts for media and press: Saša Nemec, rdece.zore@gmail.com

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MARCH 16TH
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Talk with Tibor Noé Kiss – “Gender: Incognito”
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