Esterházy, Péter

(Why do you write?)
“Everybody’s got their reasons: for some art is an escape, for others it’s a means of seduction. But you can flee into seclusion, madness or death, and you can conquer with weapons. So why realize escape or conquest in writing? I read. I read we write to be loved, and they read us without loving us – most probably it is this distance that makes a writer. So: I write: for pleasure, for fear, for freedom and in freedom; and because “I don’t like this stupefying, disgusting and infuriating world, I want to change it’, Zitat Ende, I write.” (Esterházy Péter)
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Esterházy, Péter (Budapest, 14. 04. 1950)

Writer, mathematician. He graduated from the Piarist grammar school of Budapest and earned a degree in mathematics from ELTE University in 1974. He has been a freelance writer since 1978.

Díjak:
Artistic Foundation First Volumes Prize, 1977
Commemorative Medal of the Kelemen Mikes Circle (Holland), 1980
Mozgó Világ Aszú Prize, 1981
Milán Füst Award, 1983
Tibor Déry Prize, 1984
Attila József Prize, 1986
Örley Prize (with Péter Nádas), 1986
Vilencia Prize (Slovenia), 1988, 1998
Gyula Krúdy Prize, 1990
The Book of the Year Award, 1990
Soros Foundation Life’s Work Prize, 1992
MR Radio Play Production Prize, 1993
Rome Literary Festival Prize [Premio Opera di Poesia], 1993
Free Press Prize, 1994
Prize of the Foundation for Hungarian Art, 1995
Soros Foundation Creative Prize, 1995
Bjorson Prize (Norway), 1995
Kossuth Prize, 1996
Ernő Szép Award, 1996
 
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