Péter ZÁVADA (Hungary)

Péter ZÁVADA (poet, playwright, translator, teacher; Hungary) is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent being I-Machine (2025). For Wreck in Lee (2017) he won the Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship. He is also a recipient of the Örkény István Playwriting Scholarship (2016), the Móricz Zsigmond Literary Scholarship (2017), and the Cogito Prize for Young Philosophers (2023). Several of his plays have been produced to acclaim in Budapest, Nyitra, and Dresden, and The Kertész Street Shaxpeare Carwash won the Critic’s Choice Award for the best Hungarian theatre production of the year in 2021. At an early age, Závada was part of the highly successful rap group Akkezdet Phiai. He currently holds a full-time position as an assistant professor in the Eötvös Loránd University Department of Aesthetics.