Zsófia Czakó

Zsófia Czakó was born in 1987 in Győr, Hungary. “It is not Proper to Garden on Good Friday” appeared in 2019. It is a set of 19 linked stories that was shortlisted for the 2020 Margó Prize for the best first fiction; two excerpts have appeared in English. Her second novel “Heartsound”, was published this spring.

POWER OUTAGE by Zsófia Czakó; translated by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess

November 1, 2023 · Fiction

She looked at that tree as if it were a murderer, and with hate in her eyes told me that in her dreams every night she sneaks over with an axe and chops it down with two strokes.

Crow Jonah Norlander