My Secret Life

My Secret Life is the first book in English translation of the poetry ofKrisztina Tth, onwere selected by her from three of her nine published collections, with the addition of some new or previously uncollected poems.

Tth is, and has been for several years, a major figure in Hungarian writing and, being a major figure with an important public voice, she has also been, and is now, subject to unrelenting attacks by the government-funded, government-supporting, gutter press. She has been self-exiled in England but is moving to Switzerland shortly. Originally attacked for suggesting that a couple of standard pieces of literature might be removed from the school syllabus and replaced by writing by living women authors, her life has become the subject of the sort of storm of defamation already practised on others perceived to be threatening the values of the government.

Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025