Roland Orcsik

Roland Orcsik was  born in Becse (Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia) in 1975. Since 1992 he lives in Szeged city in Hungary. He is working at the University of Szeged in the Institute of Slavonic Studies. Orcsik is one of the editors of literary monthly "Tiszatáj”. He writes poetry, prose, criticism, and translates from a number of Ex-Yugoslavian languages into Hungarian. His research focuses on Hungarian and Ex-Yugoslav literary contacts. So far he has published five volumes of poetry (plus one selection in Serbian and one in Croatian and English).  His first novel was published in 2016 under the title Phantomcommando (it’s translated into Romanian, Slovak and Serbian languages), Portable Ocean is his second novel (2025). His works are translated in Arabic, Czech, English, French, Hindi, Croatian, Greek, German, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Serbian languages.