Láng Orsolya: Személyes okok [Personal Reasons]. Poems. Budapest– Târgu Mureș, Prae Kiadó – Lector Publishers, 2021.

Category: Fiction
Pages: 80
Cover: paperback
ISBN: 978-606-8957-30-2 – 978-615-6199-12-6

Orsolya Láng (born 1987, Satu Mare, Romania) is a writer, poet, visual artist, and film director. She was born in 1987, grew up in Transylvania. In 2017 she received her master’s degree in Animation from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Currently, she is a doctoral student there. She won the Grand Prix at KAFF in 2019 with her graduation film Off Season. In 2022, she received the Junior Szépíró Literary Award. She won the László Bertók Literary Award for young authors in 2023. She is the author of five books: Tejszobor [Milk Sculpture] (prose, 2015), Bordaköz [Intercostal] (poems, 2016), Pályamatricák [Freeway Stickers] (travelogues, 2020), Személyes okok [Personal Reasons] (poems, 2021), Ház, délután [A House in the Afternoon] (poems, 2024). She also illustrates books.

Reading Orsolya Láng’s second book of poems is a journey through spaces, fleeting moments, and lasting stories. With an almost bewildering immediacy, she establishes strong connections with the reader. The poems’ intimate and familiar qualities stem from her carefully crafted and meticulous poetic language, as well as the unique perspective that emerges within them.

Láng’s poems in “Personal Reasons,” which explore themes of estrangement, travel, self-discovery, and the search for connection, create an exciting interplay between the poems’ mostly unnamed addressees, the speaker, and the reader.