Zsófia Bán

Zsófia Bán is a Hungarian writer, critic and scholar. Her recent works include the novel, Night School: A Reader for Grownups (Open Letter Books, 2019), and The Summer of Our Discontent (Matthes und Seitz and DAADMarch, 2019), a book of essays exploring the visual representation of historical memory. Zsófia is the recipient of a number of prizes for fiction, essay writing and criticism, and was writer-in- residence with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme in 2015/16. She lives and works in Budapest where she is Associate Professor of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University.