Joyce Carol Oates (1938), an American writer with Hungarian ancestry through her maternal grandparents, has so far received both the Pulitzer and the National Book Prize five times. His work ethic is legendary: since 1963, he has published more than a hundred books (including 58 novels), all of which are of a high standard. In 2011, President Barack Obama presented him with one of the most prestigious state awards, the National Humanities Medal, and in 2019, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for his work for individual freedoms. For years, he has been considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. His opinion-forming Twitter posts on social issues are particularly entertaining.
His works are also well-known and popular among domestic readers, including The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Luxury World, They, Rape - a love story or A Beautiful Virgin.
His novel A Pikk Bubi was first published in Hungarian in 2015, at the same time as the American edition. In the psychological thriller, a writer following in the footsteps of Stephen King in popularity is accused of plagiarism, causing his life to become hell. And from the darkest cocoon - from the depths of the unknowable corners of the brain - his authorial alter ego, kept secret from everyone, the creator of the cruder, creepier and more violent horror novels, Pikk Bubi, emerges - with murderous temper and testing the nerves of the readers.