Melinda Mátyus

Melinda Mátyus (born 1970) is a theatre critic and author of fiction, writing in Hungarian and based in Romania. She studied theology and comparative literature, and is active as a Calvinist pastor. Her deeply original voice has garnered important professional recognition and catapulted her to some of the most important Hungarian literary journals, such as Litera, szifonline.hu, Jelenkor, Pannon Tükör, Látó and World Literature Today. She was a recipient of the Látó Award for fiction in 2020, and co-authored the volume Az ember tragédiája (The Tragedy of Man), edited by András Visky (Koinónia). Her first standalone volume of fiction is forthcoming in 2024.