Sándor Jászberényi mađarski je novinar i pisac koji je kao ratni dopisnik za mađarske medije, New York Times i Egypt Independent, izvještavao o Arapskom proljeću, sukobima u Gazi, Darfurskoj krizi, Siriji…
Kada je 2014. okupio svoja bliskoistočna novinarska iskustva u knjizi Az ördög egy fekete kutya [Vrag je crni pas: priče s Bliskog istoka i šire], kritika ga je dočekala s oduševljenjem: proglašen je osebujnim novim glasom, svojevrsnim enfant terribleom mađarske književnosti.
Tvrdokuhana proza koju Jászberényi piše beskompromisna je i po čitatelja bespoštedna. Surovim i škrtim jezikom pred čitatelja iznosi bogatu paletu iskustava gubitka i proživljene muke te vjerno slikajući pakao bliskoistočnih sukoba progovara o bezizglednoj egzistenciji ljudi s društvene margine i o surovosti života u ratom okaljanoj stvarnosti.
U hrvatskom su mu prijevodu u izdanju nakladničke kuće Oceanmore (prevoditeljica Xenia Detoni) objavljene dvije zbirke priča: Najljepša noć duše: priče o nesanici i ludilu, koja je 2017. dobila mađarsku književnu nagradu Libri, te Kralj gavrana i Zapadnjačke priče.
Rođen je u Sopronu 1980., živi na relaciji Budimpešta – Kairo, a posljednjih godinu dana boravi u Ukrajini i prati tamošnja ratna zbivanja.
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Sándor Jászberényi is a Hungarian journalist and writer. As a war correspondent for Hungarian media, the New York Times, and the Egypt Independent, he has reported on the Arab Spring, conflicts in Gaza, the Darfur crisis, Syria, and more.
When he collected his Middle-East reporter’s experience in the book The Devil is a Black Dog: Stories from the Middle East and Beyond in 2014, critics were delighted: he was proclaimed a distinctive new voice, a kind of enfant terrible of the Hungarian literature. His hardboiled prose is uncompromising and cutthroat. Using a raw, concise language, he offers the readers a wide range of experiences of loss and suffering, and provides a faithful depiction of Middle East conflicts talking about hopeless existence of people on the social margins and about the brutality of life in the reality tarnished by war.
Two of his collections of stories have been published in Croatia: The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul, which won the Hungarian literary prize Libri in 2017, and The Crow King and Western Stories.
He was born in 1980 and lives between Budapest and Cairo. For the past year, he has been living in Ukraine and covering the ongoing war.
