Gabor G. Gyukics

National Beat Poetry Foundation in 2020 Gabor G Gyukics (b. 1958) Hungarian - American poet, literary translator is the author of 1 book of original prose,7 books of original poetry, 4 in Hungarian, 2 in English, 1 in Bulgarian and 13 books of translations including A Transparent Lion, selected poetry of Attila József and an anthology of North American Indigenous poets in Hungarian. He writes his poems in English and Hungarian. He had lived in Holland for two years before moving to the US where he'd lived between 1988-2002, at present he resides in Vienna, Austrira. His poetic works and translations have been published in over 200 magazines and anthologies in English, Hungarian and other languages world wide. He is a recipient of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) residency in Canada in 2011. He received the Füst Milan translators prize in 1999, the National Cultural Foundation grant in 2007 and the 2012 Salvatore Quasimodo special prize for poetry. Thanks to an Arts Link grant he established an Poetry Open Mike and Jazz Poetry series within Hungary in 1999. Organized and hosted over 100 readings with well known, prize winner and also with young and upcomming poets. He is a member of the Hungarian Society of Writers, Critics and Literary Translators and the Hungarian Translators Association. Elevating the associative musicality of images and thoughts to become an organizing principle is certainly not without roots in the Hungarian poetic tradition, yet the way Gabor G Gyukics is using it still sounds foreign and strange in Europe (and in Hungary), and it is rather close to contemporary American poetry. Mainly because Gyukics' poetry is not based on edited music and on music in the poetic sense. What is important in the case of this strange 'tradition' is the improvisative character, its instantaneity, its direct (yet not individual) subjectivity of live jazz and the ephemer aeshetics of the poems that cannot be canonized and therefore they seem foreign to the aeshtetic requirements of European poetry." PhD, habil Orsolya Rákai