Anna Terék

06. 10. 2023

Anna Terék (1984) was born in Bačka Topola, Vojvodina, (former) Yugoslavia. Graduated in Psychology (MA) at the University Eötvös Loránd in Budapest, Hungary, in 2012. She works as a school psychologist in Budapest, from 2015. Her first book of poems Tear of the smile (Mosolyszakadás) was published in Vojvodina in 2007, and after that in 2011 was published her second book of poems Danube street (Duna utca) for what she got Sinkó Ervin Prize. Her first drama Jelentkezzenek a legjobbak!/Neka se jave najbolji! was presented in 2012, in the Serbian National Theater. Her first book of dramas was published in 2016. Her third book of poems Dead women (Halott nők) was published in 2017. She got the Csáth Géza Prize, Sziveri János Prize with that book. The croatian translation of the book was published in 2019, the german translation in 2020, the polish tranlation will be published in 2021. Her latest book was published in 2020 with the title: Back on the sun (Háttal a napnak), for what she got the Füst Milán Prize in the same year. She is currently a holder of Térey János stipend for writing poems. She is working and living in Budapest.