About Károly Pallai

Károly Pallai is a a historian of literature, poet, translator and editor, and founder of the electronic literary review Vents Alizés. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Francophone Literatures and has published several collections of poems and a play.

He is the author of academic works on the contemporary literature of Oceania and the Indian Ocean published by the University Press Pécs (Subjectivités seychelloises, Mosaïque des océans, >Microlectures polynésiennes). He is the first Hungarian translator of several languages (Seychelles, Mauritius, Haitian and Guadeloupean Creole, Papiamento, Sranan, Sarnami, Saramaccan and Aukan). He has received several awards and prizes in acknowledgement of his work as a historian of literature, translator and poet.

Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Krisztián Tóbiás and Károly Pallai

The stigmata of the masons are bleeding sticking together the bricks as a sacrifice is required a blood sacrifice to keep the walls from tumbling down and from striking them dead blinking night-scented gilliflowers plaster up the dropping salty red liquid in the wall of the house under the window and in the tiny corridors in the coating of plaster the blood … [Read more...]

Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Károly Fellinger and Károly Pallai

MAGNIFYING The period during which God is still able to undo the creation is an average life expectancy. As the average age increases year by year, it’s all the more obvious that God becomes slower. If people were eternal, creation would definitely be irrevocable. MIRE OF THE SKIES She, who is making her way out of the mirror right now, can only get off … [Read more...]

Poems by Krisztián Tóbiás, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

Six Poems by Károly Fellinger, translated by Károly Sándor Pallai

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