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Ottó Horváth

Serbian poet, writer, and translator.

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Horváth Ottó (Oto Horvat) was born on 17 February 1967 in Újvidék. He is a Serbian poet, writer and translator, and lives and works in Firenze. His first collection, Gde nestaje šuma (1987), won the Branko Award; he has since published twelve books in all, most recently Momenti 1–49 (2025), and a selection of his poems has appeared in German. His novel Sabo je stao (2014) won the Biljana Jovanović Award (2014) and the Mirko Kovač Award (2015), and was shortlisted for the NIN Prize in 2015.

As a translator, he has brought poems by Pilinszky János, Fenyvesi Ottó and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, among others, into Serbian.