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Judit Katalin Hollós (Hungarian style: Hollós Judit Katalin; born March 4, 1982, Budapest, Hungary), playwright, essayist, translator, journalist, and haiku poet. She graduated in playwriting and screenwriting from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest and will complete her studies in classical Tibetan language and literature in 2023. Her monologues and short plays have been produced in theaters and festivals in Glasgow, San Francisco, New York, London, Manchester, and Kyiv. Her haiku, tanka, haibun, short stories, translations, and articles in English, Swedish, and Hungarian have been featured in international literary magazines, periodicals, and anthologies since 2014. She is the author of two chapbook collections of Japanese-style poetry and short prose; a third book of haiku is forthcoming. Hollós was listed among The European Top 100 most creative haiku authors for 2014, 2015, and 2016, and a work of hers was nominated for The Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2020. She resides in Budapest.
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