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Edina Szvoren was born in 1974 in Budapest, where she teaches solfeggio and music theory. Her volumes of short stories and one novel started appearing in 2005. Her collection of short stories There Is None, Nor Let There Be won the European Union Prize for Literature 2015. She has also won other prestigious Hungarian literary prizes: Tibor Déry (2010), Sándor Bródy (2011), Attila József (2013), Artisjus (2013), Miklós Mészöly (2019), and Libri Literary (2019).