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Biography

Lucy Déry was born on 22^nd March, 1979 in Istanbul to Hungarian parents. She is currently living in Budapest. Déry graduated in English Language and Literature and is an advocate for social justice and change. Letters is Sand / Írás a Homokban is her first book of poetry, which is a selection of her poems written in the Hungarian and English languages. 

"What makes verses written in more than one language so special? What is the difference between a multilingual book of poetry and one created in the mother tongue of the author? Why would a poet choose the coruscating hovering between cultures? Peculiarly enough, in the multilingual old days of Hungary the mixing of languages or contrasting one with the other had not been a common practice, particularly not the combination of English with Hungarian. One of the few who did take the challenge was János Arany, author of The Welsh Bards, whose attitude to English was like one’s to a dead language with a command of the English language confined to the written word only. In the poetry of Lucy Déry the flitting from one language to the other, contrasting Haiku with Hungarian folk traditions, images and texts, within a loose syntactic framework serves to convey an idyll evanescent, and a subject impossible to define or limit. Everything seems to be drifting, fluctuating, flowing, flying, moving, flashing in these poems."

(From Éva Bánki's foreword)

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