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J zsef Debreczeni (Author) J zsef Debreczeni was a Hungarian-language novelist, poet and journalist who spent most of his life in the former Yugoslavia. He was an editor of the Hungarian daily newspaper nnep in Budapest, from which he was dismissed due to anti-Jewish legislation. He was later a contributor to the Hungarian media, including the newspaper Napl , in the Yugoslav region of Vojvodina, as well as leading Belgrade newspapers. He was awarded the Hid Prize, the highest distinction in Hungarian literature in the former Yugoslavia. Paul Olchvary (Translator) Paul Olchvary has translated many books for leading publishers, including Gy rgy Dragoman's The White King, Andras Forgach's No Live Files Remain, dam Bodor's The Sinistra Zone, Vilmos Kondor's Budapest Noir and Karoly Pap's Azarel. He has received translation awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, and Hungary's Milan F st Foundation. His shorter translations have appeared in the Paris Review, New York Times Magazine, Kenyon Review, Tablet, AGNI and Guernica. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Meticulous and intelligent translation... A masterpiece * New Statesman * Astonishing… Debreczeni captures detail after harrowing detail * Guardian * A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man, especially for the young generation -- Jung Chang, author of WILD SWANS Whatever I say about this amazing book feels inadequate. Cold Crematorium is a brilliant book, but the word brilliant does not encompass it. It evades words. I have seldom read a book that creates empathy while dealing with the most dehumanized and dehumanizing experience. I wish everyone would read it, especially in this time of sheer inhumanity and baffling complicity -- Azar Nafisi, author of READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN An immensely powerful and deeply humane eyewitness account of the horror of the camps. Through vivid descriptions of what he saw and experienced there, Debreczeni confronts the reader with the hell that the Holocaust was; not as something general belonging to history, but as a particular, concrete and devastating reality -- Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of MY STRUGGLE Cold Crematorium offers a cleareyed view of the Nazi death machine with shades of gallows humor, tragedy and anthropological insight * New York Times * An indispensable work of literature and a historical document of unsurpassed importance. It should be required reading -- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED József Debreczeni was a journalist and a poet and he brings the skills of both to this remarkable work. Cold Crematorium will awe you with the acuity of its observations and the precision and beauty of its language. It should be read by everyone wishing to understand the cruelty and barbarism of the Shoah, but also the indomitable spirit of its survivors -- Ehud Barak, Former Prime Minister of Israel Published in Hungarian in 1950 and won him prizes, but has only now been translated, elegantly and precisely, by Paul Olchváry. What is remarkable is that this vivid, painful memoir has remained so long unknown * Literary Review * An extraordinary memoir... An unforgettable testimonial to the terror of the Holocaust and the will to endure * Kirkus, *Starred Review* *
