Beáta Thomka

Thomka Beáta was born on 13 October 1949 in Torontálvásárhely. A literary historian, translator and university professor, she holds the title Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She studied and taught in Újvidék, where she was an editor of Új Symposion; since 1996, she has been a professor in the Department of Modern Literary History at the University of Pécs, and since 2002, head of its Doctoral School of Literary Studies.

Her research covers literary theory, narratology and twentieth-century Hungarian prose, and she translates works of Serbian and French literary theory. Her books include Beszél egy hang (2001), Prózai archívum (2007) and Regénytapasztalat (2018). She edited the study collections Tolnai-symposion (2004) and Domonkos-symposion. Tanulmányok Domonkos István műveiről (2005). Her work has been recognised with the József Attila Prize, the Széchenyi Prize and the Officer’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.