photo by Dóra Kupcsik
Ádám T. Bogár (full name Hungarian style Bogár Ádám Tamás, born December 29, 1984, Budapest, Hungary). Translator, interpreter, and project manager by profession, he has been writing haiku since 2007 and has published his work in Hungarian venues including Napút, Inter Japán Magazin, and Kizuna as well as in English in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Ardea, and the 2021 Red Moon Anthology. He specializes in found haiku and has produced two found haiku chapbooks: The Feynman Lectures in Haiku (2019) and The Vanishing Mediator (2021). Bogár is coeditor (with Rebeka Sára Szigethy) of the bilingual haiku journal kontinuum (2021–2023, currently on hiatus). He assisted in the English translations in volume 1 of Judit Vihar’s Örömutazás (Joy Journey; 2021) and was responsible for the Hungarian translations in Jim Kacian’s interactive video long after (2022). Bogár is also the founding director of the Budapest Chapter of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. He lives in Folkestone, Kent, U.K.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.