Szilvia Molnar

Szilvia Molnar (born 1984) is a Hungarian born American writer whose first novel The Nursery was released in 2023.

Life Molnar was born in 1984 in Budapest and raised in southern Sweden. She and her parents immigrated to Sweden around 1989 When Molnar was a teenager, she won a short story competition run by Sveriges Radio.

Molnar has worked in the publishing industry for nearly two decades, most recently as the foreign rights director for the Sterling Lord literary agency. Her novel The Nursery is autobiographical and inspired by her own postpartum experiences, She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two children.

Writing career

Molnar made her writing debut in 2005 with works published in literary periodicals in Sweden and the United Kingdom. In 2006, she won a writing competition in Ordfront Magasin

Molnar's debut novel The Nursery was released in 2023 by Oneworld in the United Kingdom and Pantheon Books in North America. In The Atlantic, Daphne Merkin called The Nursery "a powerful brew of a novel, emitting unpleasant sights, smells, and emotions that are rarely captured in print; it is frequently disquieting in its brutal, insistent candor."

Molnar's work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Neue Rundschau and other literary magazines.