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J zsef Debreczeni (Author) J zsef Debreczeni was a Hungarian-language novelist, poet and journalist who spent most of his life in the former Yugoslavia. He was an editor of the Hungarian daily newspapers Napl and nnep in Budapest, from which he was dismissed due to anti-Jewish legislation. He was later a contributor to the Hungarian media in the Yugoslav region of Vojvodina, as well as leading Belgrade newspapers. He was awarded the Hid Prize, the highest distinction in Hungarian literature in the former Yugoslavia. Paul Olchvary (Translator) Paul Olchvary has translated many books for leading publishers, including Gy rgy Dragoman's The White King, Andras Forgach's No Live Files Remain, dam Bodor's The Sinistra Zone, Vilmos Kondor's Budapest Noir and Karoly Pap's Azarel. He has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and Hungary's Milan F st Foundation. His shorter translations have appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times Magazine, the Kenyon Review, Tablet, AGNI and Guernica. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Cold Crematorium is an indispensable work of literature and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading. -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED József Debreczeni was a journalist and a poet and he brings the skills of both to this remarkable work. Cold Crematorium will awe you with the acuity of its observations and the precision and beauty of its language. It should be read by everyone wishing to understand the cruelty and barbarism of the Shoah, but also the indomitable spirit of its survivors. -- Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel
