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ottilie mulzet
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
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translator Монгол/Hungarian to English, occasional poet, adoptee

Krisztina Tóth, The Eye of the Monkey. Seven Stories, 2025

Under a Pannonion Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary (ed.), Seagull Books, 2025

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17.11.1939.
17.11.1989.
International Students' Day.
never forget.
Plaque on wall in Prague (medical faculty) marking the beginning of the Students March on November 17, 1989, that led to the Velvet Revolution. It reads: When - if not now? Who - if not us? Above it are three small lights, white, red blue. Flowers and wreathes laid beneath the plaque to the left
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The review mentions that the book is a translation, but not the translator
screenshot from the Cleveland Review of Books in which it is highlighted that the eord 'translation' is used once
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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@safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team
screenshot of advisory from AAUP. the passage suggesting people change all social media to private mode is highlighted in green.
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Silent march in Prague for the murdered children of Gaza/Tichý pochod.
Grateful for the words, and the presence, of Tomáš Halík (who spoke before and after the march).
For the prayers in Czech and Arabic.
🙏
September 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Very happy to have a selection of poems from my upcoming anthology of Hungarian women's poetry in the current issue of Modern Poetry in Translation, trans. by Erika Mihálycsa and myself. Many thanks to Jessica Segueira and Janani Ambikapathy 🧡
Cover of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation, entitled Rhythms of the Land. Dark blue background with whitish-blue silhouettes of plants to the right and left. Back cover of Modern Poetry in Translation listing all the contributors
August 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Final cover for Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, publising in Oct. by @sevenstories.bsky.social in the US and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social in the UK. Available for preorder now
Cover of Eye of the Monkey, by Krisztina Tóth, trans. Ottilie Mulzet. An abstract image of a fence or gate at the top in brownish-taupe hues, with the title, author, and translator at the bottom.
August 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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My translation of Eye of the Monkey, by Krisztina Tóth, publishing in October by @sevenstories.bsky.social and @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social, is now available for pre-order.
Cover of Eye of the Monkey, by Krisztina Tóth, trans. Ottilie Mulzet. An abstract image of a fence or gate at the top in brownish-taupe hues, with the title, author, and translator at the bottom.
August 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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budapest pride 🧡
picture of gellert hill in budapest with a large pink triangle
June 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I feel proud of all the Hungarians in Transylvania who came out and voted for Dan (see Csikszereda below 😊) but don't vote for Orbán again in 2026 for G-d's sake!!!
screenshot of a facebook post from Attila Korodi, white type on blue background, thanking Csíkszereda for voting for Nicusor Dan
May 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Prague urban progressives love to make fun of people who complain about scooters, but this is a serious impediment to anyone in a wheelchair. (If your argument is, the wheelchair has enough room to pass, then you sound just like the people defending cars).

Maybe stop being ableist?
Corner of a Prague cobblestine sidewalk on a sunny fay. There are so many Lime scooters cluttering the sidewalk, that there is room for one person to walk by them, not enough space for a wheelchair to pass through.
May 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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1st stanza of a poem by Emily Gorcenski: It is the time of the coward. It is the age of the liar. And greed, and avarice, and lost boys and a dopamine hit and fractals And velocity and velocity and velocity and go go go don’t stop don’t stop to realize the indecency, the disloyalty, the dishonor, the discreditability, the parsimony, the hoards hoarded behind the gates the gatekeepers keep. This is the dawn of masculine energy. Not the energy your father taught you, about measuring twice and cutting once, about picking yourself up, and how the sting of hydrogen peroxide means it’s working.
February 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Shout out to Mapy cz as well for including the real toponyms here in map of Tibet (there are issues with the spacing of the stacked letters in Tibetan, eg.Lhasa should be ལྷ་ས, but still).
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Reminder that the Czech map app Mapy.cz is a really good map app.Subscription is approx 10€/yr. & you can have unlimited offline maps. Their maps are especially good for hiking.
Map of the Gulf of Mexico. It is labelled as such.
February 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
view of the River Vltava and a bridge on a cloudy day
January 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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walking by the václav library in prague
wooden door with a photograph on it of václav havel from his younger years, with a moustache and long hair. he is holding a large glass of beer and looking off to the side.
December 15, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Czech local train service is actually pretty good (no car so I always use that or buses) and the micro-local train is called the RegioMouse 🥹
A small, one-car train sits on rail tracks before a small train station in the Czech countryside in front of a yellow station building on a summer day. The top part of the train is blue and on the side of the train is the logo for České drahy & RegioMouse.
December 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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cup of tea #dresden
close up of a cup of barley tea seen from above. brown ceramic mug on a wooden table, with reflection of orange paper lantern.
December 4, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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The Charles University Philoharmonic & Choir, conducted by Haig Utidzian, performed excerpts from Brundibar this part week at Charles University. Brundibar is a children's opera that was composed shortly before WWII & ultimately performed in Terezín. The performance by these 'youngs' was incredible.
Haig Utidzian conducting the Charles University Philoharmonic & Choir in the Great Hall of the Karolinium in the Old Town. Pictured: a student orchestra and choir. Pipe organ is seen to the upper left, windows to the upper right. There is a wavy wooden ceiling.
November 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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Reading Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder. Learning alot.
Jewish men who did make it into the partisans “already felt liberated,” as Lev Kravets recalled. Jewish women generally had a more difficult time. In partisan units the standard form of address to girls and women was “whore,” and women usually had no choice but to seek a protector. This is perhaps what Rosa Gerassimova, who survived with the partisans, meant when she recalled that “life was actually unbearable, but the partisans did rescue me. Some partisan commanders, Jews and non-Jews, did try to protect “family camps” for women and children and the elderly.
November 24, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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bookshelf w/ most of the translated books I've published, along w/ a few journals incl. published translations & some poems.
stained wooden bookshelf with pinkish wall in background. bunch of books translated from Hungarian.
November 24, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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ghost tree as seen from a train
blurry image of a birch tree against dark night, as seen from train window
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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the work of Kiba Lumberg at the Museum of Romany culture in Brno.
woman embroidered as part of a tree on green fabric.
November 23, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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the work of Josef Duchan in Prague's Libeň synagague.
a painted rectangular metal sheet propped up against an interior of a building that has not been repaired in a long time. wooden chair and a long shaft of light to the right. front interior wall of synagogue in somewhat bad repair with empty Torah ark. To right is a long piece of white fabric hanging from ceiling with red and blue marks
November 23, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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bumped into this cutie today
a dun horse behind a wire fence
November 23, 2024 at 9:50 PM