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Szilvi Naray (PhD) is a university lecturer, translator, and theatre director. She lectures in drama and translation studies at the University of Salford, England. She is the founder and artistic director of Ignition Stage, a Manchester based theatre company which specialises in pioneering Eastern European plays in English translation. She publishes in the fields of literary translation with a special interest in feminist translation and has been critically acclaimed for her English world premiere productions of her translations. Her publication "Goulash Socialism vs. Feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary" in Translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is published by Routledge, 2023.https://www.asymptotejournal.com/drama/gyorgy-spiro-prah/ https://www.proquest.com/docview/2171660214 https://ignitionstage.wordpress.com/prah/ Krisztina Tóth (b. Budapest 1967) is a celebrated and award winning Hungarian author whose work spans poetry, prose, drama,and children's literature. Originally trained in sculpture and glass artistry, she infuses her writing with sharp formal precision and dark, absurdist humour. She expanded her extensive repertoire into drama with her acclaimed play The Bat (A denevér), alongside major poetry collections like My Secret Life and her bestselling dystopian novel Eye of the Monkey. An outspoken advocate for women's rights, Tóth now lives and works internationally between Switzerland and Hungary, remaining a defining independent voice in European contemporary literature. Szilvi Naray (PhD) is a university lecturer, translator, and theatre director. She lectures in drama and translation studies at the University of Salford, England. She is the founder and artistic director of Ignition Stage, a Manchester based theatre company which specialises in pioneering Eastern European plays in English translation. She publishes in the fields of literary translation with a special interest in feminist translation and has been critically acclaimed for her English world premiere productions of her translations. Her publication "Goulash Socialism vs. Feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary" in Translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is published by Routledge, 2023.https://www.asymptotejournal.com/drama/gyorgy-spiro-prah/ https://www.proquest.com/docview/2171660214 https://ignitionstage.wordpress.com/prah/ |