Márton Simon

Márton Simon (born 14 April 1984) is a Hungarian poet, translator, performer and slam poet.

Biography Márton Simon was born in Kalocsa on 14 April 1984. After graduating from the , he studied aesthetics and communication at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. In 2015, he graduated from Károli Gáspár University, where he majored in Oriental languages and cultures with a specialization in Japanese studies.

He started publishing poetry in 2004 in literary journals. His first volume of poetry, titled ("Songs from the Mezzanine"), was published in 2010. In 2021, the work was translated into English by Timea Sipos and released by The Offending Adam Press under the title Songs for 3:45AM. In 2012, he took second place at the 1st Hungarian Slam Poetry Championship.

Simon gained wider recognition after releasing his second poetry volume, ("Polaroids"), in 2013. The book, which contains very short, numbered texts, became a national bestseller and went through numerous reprints. This was followed up by the volumes ("Foxes' Wedding") in 2018 and ("I Wanted to Talk to You in the Kitchen at Night") in 2021.

He edited ("99 Hungarian Poems"), an anthology of Hungarian poetry, published in 2021 in the series. In 2024, Simon left , his former publishing house, and founded Okapi Press, an independent publisher, under which his volume ("Cold Pizza") was released.

Simon translates English and Japanese prose and poetry into Hungarian. His translations include works by Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach) and Etgar Keret (The Seven Good Years).