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Zoltàn Lesi

Budapest/Hungary — Literature, Solitude fellow 2017

Zoltán Lesi lives and writes in Vienna/Austria and Budapest/Hungary. From 2001 to 2006, he studied software engineering at University of Szeged/Hungary. His diploma thesis was a software that analyzes poems.

He published two books of poetry: Daphnis ketskéi (Daphnis’ goat) (FISZ, 2009), Merül (Diving) (JAK-Prae, 2014) and the childdren’s book Karton és Matild – A zombimentők (Karton and Matild – The zombiesaver) (Móra Publishing House, 2017). His poetry is translated into German, English, Serbian and Polish.

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Articles with and by Zoltàn Lesi:

Cross Media Collage

In Between

with Zoltán Lesi and Ricardo Portilho

Zoltán Lesi and Ricardo Portilho on poetic experiments, intertwining time and people, intersexual athletes, and their new book publication In Frauenkleidung.

Photography & Fiction

How to Become a Ghost

by Zoltán Lesi & Daniella Domingues

Using analog cameras, Daniella Domingues and Zoltán Lesi created a multilayered portrait of Solitude fellows and staff that comes with a poetic backstory by Lesi.

Schlossghost #2

Catbirds Mew, Copycats Fly

Short story

Squirrels in Space

by Zoltán Lesi

When artist Vanja Babic and writer Zoltán Lesi met at Solitude it led to a cooperation between art and literature, reality and fiction, forest and trash.