Zoltan Danyi was born in Senta (Serbia) in 1972. He is the author of a short story collection and several volumes of poetry and prose, including essays on the Hungarian philosopher Bela Hamvas. His two novels A doegeltakarito (The Carcass Remover, 2015) and A rozsakrol (About the Roses, 2021) have been highly acclaimed in Hungary. They are both translated into German also.

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‘The Carcass Remover is a baleful comet burningacross Europe trailing fire and ice, what is desired and what is damned. Youknow it to be witness, and you can only hope it isn’t prophecy. In RobinsonJeffers’ words beauty is not always lovely and this is not a lovely book but itis beautiful and necessary. A stunning piece of work.’ Eoin McNamee‘A very significant and mature talent. ... With hisoutstanding prose, ... through his meticulously crafted, patiently objectivestyle, he makes a direct and daring step.’ Péter Nádas‘War brutalizes. In Zoltán Danyi’s excellentlytranslated The Carcass Remover a man drifts between Serbia andHungary through postwar geographies of physical and psychological wreckage. Thebook is held together by what is constantly tearing it apart.’ GeorgeSzirtes‘The spiral of war coils around the protagonist’s life ...becoming grotesque, obscene, and even absurd. There is no way out for the onewho has fallen into war.’ Noémi Kiss‘Zoltán Danyi’s irate first novel The CarcassRemover is a literary event that has reached far beyond the borders ofHungary. ... Beneath every surface lies a sinister depth, and it is into thesethat Danyi mercilessly shines his light. A gaze one has to endure. He is afirst-class novelist; above all, however, he offers us an urgent challenge inthe face of Europe’s breakdown.’ Neue Zürcher Zeitung‘The Carcass Remover is a perfect book of paradoxical beauty thatdeals with the ugly within us.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung‘The great success of The Carcass Remover is not entirely downto its aesthetic quality, but also its shocking timeliness, the permanentcontemporary nature of history, its continual return, the death of culture, ofhumanity, of the myth of Europe. The fact that here and now we are also livingin wartime.’ Orsolya Bencsik, Müut‘The beauty of the language with which a manic narrator wrestles his demons,chapter after chapter, is astonishing.’ Literatur Spiegel