Roland Orcsik

Orcsik Roland was born in 1975 in Óbecse, in the former Yugoslavia, and has lived in Hungary since 1992. He is a poet, writer, translator, literary historian and editor. Since 2011, he has been an editor of the journal Tiszatáj and an assistant professor at the Institute of Slavic Philology of the University of Szeged. From 2008 to 2013, he was one of the main organisers of the Kultúrcsempész Sínbusz Festival.

He has published five poetry collections, most recently Legalja (2020); selections of his poems have appeared in Serbian and in a Croatian–English bilingual edition. His study collection detoNáció (2015) examines the ex-Yugoslav literary connections of Domonkos István’s work. His first novel, Fantomkomanndó (2016), has appeared in Romanian, Serbian and Slovak, while his second novel, Hordozható óceán, was published in 2025. His work has received, among others, the Faludy, Sziveri János, Csáth Géza and Sava Babić prizes.