Ágota Bozai

Ágota Bozai (born 1965, Siófok) is a Hungarian journalist and novelist. She has written eight novels in Hungarian, and for her doctoral degree, translated James Joyce's Finnegans Wake into Hungarian.

Life Bozai was born in Siófok, Hungary in 1965. She holds an MA degree in philology from the University of Kolozsvár in Cluj-Napoca. She has a PhD in English Literature, and her thesis was on her translation of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. She works as a journalist as well as a novelist and teacher. Bozai's first novel was described as a "satirical account of what happened in the east European Countries when ‘at-all-costs capitalism’ sprung up from the ashes of the previously Soviet-controlled governments." Her later novels include Tranzit glória (1999; published in German as Err is goettlich in 2001 and in English as To Err is Divine in 2004, translated by David Kramer), Mi az ábra? (What's Up? 2003) and A szerelmetlen város (A Loveless Little Town, 2004).