Peter Zilahy
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Péter Zilahy (born in Budapest, November 8, 1970) is a many-sided author, whose prose and poetry has been widely translated and who has often used photography, interactive media and performance art in his work. He was editor-in-chief of Link Budapest, an Internet magazine for contemporary literature in English and Hungarian between 1997-1999. He has been the editor-in-chief of 'The World Literature Series' since 1998: first at Jak Books and later at Gondolat Publishers. His book of poems Statue Under White Sheet, Ready to Jump was published in 1993. His dictionary novel The Last Window Giraffe was published in 1998 and has since been translated into 18 languages. The CD-ROM based on his book has been performed in over twenty countries. In 2001, he was a visiting scholar at New York University. In 2002, Ludwig Museum Budapest held an exhibition of his selected pictures and interactive works. In 2003, he had an exhibition in Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, where his latest book, Drei, was also published.
