MÁRTON SIMON (Hungary)

MÁRTON SIMON (b.1984) is a Hungarian poet, performer, and translator. Publishing poems since 2004 he is the author of five poetry collections and one spoken word album. Simon is a proud MacDowell fellow and received a Visegrád Fund Literary Fellowship and the Horváth Péter Literary Fellowship, which celebrates the best Hungarian writer below 35. In 2026 he won the Kovács András Ferenc Prize.

His work has been translated into German, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, Catalan and Bulgarian. English translations of his poems by Tímea Sipos have appeared in Waxwing, Michigan Quarterly Review, Duende, Hungarian Literature Online, Trafika Europe and Modern Poetry in Translation, among others. His first poetry collection „Songs for 3:45 AM” was first published in English with The Offending Adam Press in 2021.

In 2024 he started his own independent publishing label, Okapi Press. He has an MA in Japanese Studies. He lives with his wife and daughter in Budapest, Hungary.