Orsolya Kalász
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Orsolya Kalász was born in 1964 in Dunaújváros and now lives in Berlin. She is a Hungarian poet and translator of literature. Her work has been authored and edited in two languages.
Orsolya Kalasz is bilingual and grew up speaking two different languages, Hungarian and German. Her father, the Hungarian writer and poet, Márton Kalász, worked at the House of Hungarian Culture in East Berlin in the beginning of the 70s. Orsolya did her schooling till 1974 here. After completing her high school, she studied German Studies, Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at Loránd-Eötvös-Universität in Budapest. In the year 1984, she started to publish her works. Since 1995, she has lived and worked in Berlin. She writes her poetry in both Hungarian and German. She has herself transcribed some of her texts in the second language.
As a translator she has been editing some of her new works in Hungarian since 1995, together with the German poet Monika Rinck.
ಕೂದಲೆಳೆಯ ತಂತ್ರ
Das Blau der Haut /
തൊലിനീല
Die Sprache gibt den Löffel ab /
கைமாறும் இறப்பின் தருணம் / ಭಾಷೆ ಸಾಯುವ ಬಗೆ / ഭാഷ തവി കമിഴ്ത്തുമ്പോൾ
Wenn du deine Finger aus der Erde ziehst /
ಮಣ್ಣಿಂದ ಬೆರಳ ಹೊರ ತೆಗೆದಾಗ / உன் விரல்களை மண்ணுக்குள்ளிருந்து வெளியே எடுக்கும்போது -ஒர்ஷோயா கலாஸ் / നിന്റെ കൈവിരലുകളെ ഭൂമിയിൽ നിന്നു വലിച്ചെടുക്കുമ്പോൾ
Orsolya Kalasz is bilingual and grew up speaking two different languages, Hungarian and German. Her father, the Hungarian writer and poet, Márton Kalász, worked at the House of Hungarian Culture in East Berlin in the beginning of the 70s. Orsolya did her schooling till 1974 here. After completing her high school, she studied German Studies, Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at Loránd-Eötvös-Universität in Budapest. In the year 1984, she started to publish her works. Since 1995, she has lived and worked in Berlin. She writes her poetry in both Hungarian and German. She has herself transcribed some of her texts in the second language.
As a translator she has been editing some of her new works in Hungarian since 1995, together with the German poet Monika Rinck.
Poems
Anwendung der Fadentechnik /ಕೂದಲೆಳೆಯ ತಂತ್ರ
Das Blau der Haut /
തൊലിനീല
Die Sprache gibt den Löffel ab /
கைமாறும் இறப்பின் தருணம் / ಭಾಷೆ ಸಾಯುವ ಬಗೆ / ഭാഷ തവി കമിഴ്ത്തുമ്പോൾ
Wenn du deine Finger aus der Erde ziehst /
ಮಣ್ಣಿಂದ ಬೆರಳ ಹೊರ ತೆಗೆದಾಗ / உன் விரல்களை மண்ணுக்குள்ளிருந்து வெளியே எடுக்கும்போது -ஒர்ஷோயா கலாஸ் / നിന്റെ കൈവിരലുകളെ ഭൂമിയിൽ നിന്നു വലിച്ചെടുക്കുമ്പോൾ
