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Péter Zilahy was born in 1970 in Budapest. He is a many sided author, whose prose and poetry are 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, where among others he published Victor Pelevin, Ian McEwan, Ingo Schulze and Arnon Grunberg. His book of poems Statue Under a 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 14 languages. The CD-ROM based on his book has been performed in over twenty countries. He was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2001. In 2002 Ludwig Museum Budapest made an exhibition of his selected works. Presently he is staying and working in Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.
