Katalin Ladik

Katalin Ladik (1942) was born in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia). Her formal education was bilingual, in Hungarian and Serbian. From 1963 she works as an actress in the Radio Novi Sad and from 1975 in the theatre there. Recently she has settled in Budapest. She has published 16 collections of verse, but beside written verse she has done much in visual and phonic poetry, happenings and performance art, mail art and a number of other experimental fields. She is member of the Hungarian Writers’ Association and the National Association of Hungarian Artists. She has received the Kassák Award in 1991, the Hungarian Literary Observer award (Magyar Irodalmi Figyelő) of the Hollandiai Mikes Kelemen Kör (Association for Hungarian Art, Literature and Science in the Netherlands) in 2000, and the Attila József Award in 2001. Her latest book is Élhetek az arcodon? (2007).