Zsófia Bán is a Hungarian writer, critic, and scholar born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Brazil and Hungary. Night School: A Reader for Grownups (2019) was translated into English by Jim Tucker. Her work has also been translated into German, Spanish, and other languages. She is an associate professor of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest, Hungary. Photo: Daniel Olah / Unsplash
Sometime in the mid-1980s, at the first conference of the European Association of American Studies held behind the Iron...
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2019. 240 pages.
Hungarian author Zsófia Bán (b. 1957, Rio de Janeiro) fashioned the curious frame of a “night school” to instruct her readers on a long list of rando...
Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul
Nominated for a 2016 Best Foreign Language Oscar, Hungary’s Son of Saul has been called “the film to beat.” Here in her review essay...
Sept. 2009 WLT
They had us sitting together though we didn’t want to. We even said we didn’t. At that our teacher whisked her cane staff through the air, with an astonishing alacrity given he...