Orsolya Láng: Pályamatricák [Freeway Stickers]. A Travelogue. Târgu Mureș, Lector Publishers, 2020.

Category: Fiction
Pages: 184
Cover: paperback
ISBN: 978-606-8957-20-3

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.

Orsolya Láng’s travelogue casts a serene explorer’s gaze upon the streets, landscapes, and faces of Göttingen, Porto, Constanța, Macau, and Kosovo. Sharing her experiences is a central feature of the book. The book is characterized by evocative descriptions, complemented by the author’s own photographs.