Work­ing lan­guages: Hun­gari­an, Span­ish

Field of work: Fic­tion, Poetry

Short bio­graphy: Mar­tin Hristov gradu­ated from sec­ond­ary edu­ca­tion at the 9^th High School in 1985, Span­ish lan­guage class, later stud­ied Hun­gari­an philo­logy at the Sofia Uni­ver­sity St. Kli­ment Ohrid­ski and the Debre­cen Uni­ver­sity Lajos Kos­suth, where he gradu­ated in 1992. In 1995 he foun­ded the trans­la­tion agency Alma Con­sult, and since 2002 he has been man­aging Ergo Pub­lish­ing House. He has trans­lated numer­ous books by Hun­gari­an authors.

Selec­ted trans­la­tions:

• Sándor Márai: Con­fes­sions of a Cit­izen,
• István Bibó: Polit­ics, Mor­al­ity, Demo­cracy – Selec­ted Stud­ies,
• Attila Bartis: The Calm,
• Géza Csáth: Opi­um,
• Imre Oravecz: Septem­ber 1972,
• Miklós Mészöly: Saulus,
• György Petri: Selec­ted Poems, etc.

Awards:

• Hon­or­ary dip­loma from Bul­gari­an Trans­lat­ors’ Uni­on Bul­garia (2006),
• Award for over­all trans­la­tion activ­ity from the Hun­gari­an Mil­an Füst Found­a­tion (2009, 2011, 2023),
• Hun­gari­an state award Golden Cross of Mer­it (2015).

Con­tact: martin.hristow@gmail.com, 0898337721