Attila Bartis

His parents were Ferenc Bartis (1936–2006) and Margit Gherasim.

Ferenc, his father, was a writer, poet and journalist.

His family were part of the Hungarian minority of Romania.

Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Ferenc was imprisoned in Gherla Prison but was given amnesty by Nicolae Ceaușescu seven years later and released.

Attila grew up drawing, painting, photographing and writing poems and short stories.

Attila Bartis (born 1968) is a Romanian-born Hungarian writer, photographer, dramatist and journalist.

Attila Bartis was born in 1968 in Târgu Mureș, in the Transylvania region of Romania.

His mother, who played the violin, died in the summer of 1983.

In 1984, sixteen-year-old Attila and his father were stripped of their Romanian citizenship and presented with stateless passports, and advised to leave for Hungary.

Attila moved with his father to Budapest.

Attila graduated from a gymnasium in Pest.

Between 1990 and 1991, he studied photography at the Bálint György Újságíró Iskola of the Magyar Újságírók Országos Szövetsége (MÚOSZ).

He worked as a photographer and in a used bookstore.

In 1995, at the age of twenty-seven, he published his debut novel, A séta.

Bartis' first breakthrough in photography was in 1996, when his Az Engelhard-hagyaték photography exhibit was exhibited at the Műcsarnok-Dorottya Galéria in Budapest.

The exhibit featured portraits of writers which were paired with portraits of women and each of the twenty-four writers wrote a poem or short story for their respective female portrait.

Bartis has received several awards, including the 1997 Tibor Déry Prize, the 2002 Sándor Márai Prize and the 2005 Attila József Prize.

In 1998, his debut short story collection, A kéklő pára, was published.

In the early 2000s, Bartis spent time living abroad, with a DAAD scholarship in Berlin, Germany, and then Java, Indonesia for a while.

In 2001, he published his second novel, Tranquility, which was adapted into film in 2008.

Bartis is perhaps best known for his novel Tranquility (A nyugalom), which was published in 2001.

He received the Attila József Prize in 2005.

His books have been translated into over 20 different languages.

In 2005, he published A Lázár apokrifek, a collection of the twelve short stories he wrote for the magazine.

In 2006, he was awarded A Magyar Köztársasági Érdemrend lovagkeresztje.

Tranquility was adapted into film, titled Nyugalom (2008).

The film was directed by Róbert Alföldi and stars Dorottya Udvaros, Zalán Makranczi, Dorka Gryllus and Judit Hernádi.

Tranquility was translated into English by Imre Goldstein in 2008.

It was the first time his work had been translated into English.

Goldstein's translation won the Best Translated Book Award (2009).

For one year, Bartis wrote short stories in the feuilleton of magazine Élet és Irodalom, publishing one story each month.

In 2010, Bartis and poet István Kemény published a book, titled Amiről lehet, which features conversations from interviews they conducted of each other.

In 2010, he published Tizenegy novella, an anthology consisting of eleven of Bartis' short stories, all of which were previously published in A kéklő pára and A Lázár apokrifek, with the exception of the story "Gyergyó éghajlata".

His third novel, A vége, was published in 2015.

It was partly written while he lived in Indonesia.

In 2017, he became a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

In 2017, he became a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.

His books have been translated into English, Arabic, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Norwegian, Estonian, Serbian, Dutch, Italian, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian and Uyghur.

As a photographer, his photographs have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions.

In 2019, Bartis published Az eltűnt idő nyoma, a collection of diary entries and "sticky notes".