Ági Bori

Ági Bori originally hails from Hungary, and she has lived in the United States for more than thirty years. A decade ago, she decided to try her hand at translating and discovered she loved it. She is a fierce advocate for bringing more translated books to anglophone readers. In addition to translating between Hungarian and English, her favorite activity is reading Russian short stories in the original. Her translations and writings are available or forthcoming in 3:AM, Anomaly, Apofenie, Asymptote, The Baffler, The Forward, Hopscotch Translation, Hungarian Literature Online, Litro Magazine, Northwest Review, Points in Case, The Rumpus, Tablet, Trafika Europe, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is a translation editor at the Los Angeles Review.

FISH ON THE SHORE by Miklós Vámos, translated from Hungarian by Ági Bori

February 9, 2026 · Fiction

Silence and semi-darkness inside the market hall. Only the moon strolls among the empty stands, with a shopping basket on its arm. Faint lights on the counters and their retractable shutters. Loose apples and cabbages hiding under them. The building is somber, surrounded by dark houses. The windows—illuminated squares. There is not a single soul around at the market at this time but the fish in the aquarium. This is their time. Tubes carry whirring air under the water along the sidewalls. There is a lot of jostling for room. The stronger ones swim up to the edge of the…

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PARROT by László Darvasi, translated from Hungarian by Ági Bori

July 15, 2025 · Fiction

As was his habit, he lay down for an afternoon nap, although next door they were building a church. The sounds of drills, hammers, and other tools kept waking him up. He fumbled his way to the kitchen, drank two glasses of absinthe in quick little swigs, plopped back in the armchair, and stared at the ceiling. Up there, the light was moving back and forth, forming streaks and patches, devouring itself. They were puttering around next door, and he remembered that the foreman had once said to the workers that not all of them would live long enough to…

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