
Csilla Toldy
Duration
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Csilla Toldy was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and collaboratively in all art forms, in the creative industries, and across disciplines, were eligible to apply. Cove Park’s residencies also support individuals at every stage in their careers.
Csilla Toldy is a writer and translator from Hungary, living in Northern Ireland. Her publications include various literary magazines, as well as three poetry pamphlets: Red Roots – Orange Sky (2013), The Emigrant Woman’s Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (Lapwing), and Angel Fur and other stories (Stupor Mundi, 2019). Her novel Bed Table Door, long listed for the Bath Novel award, explores the idea of freedom against the backdrop of the Cold War and Thatcher’s England. (Wrecking Ball Press, 2023). Csilla’s biographical novel Kata on the life of Katalin Karady, who posthumously received the honorific Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Vashem, was published by Open Books Hungary in 2024. In 2021 she was an Emerging Translator Mentee with the National Centre for Writing, UK and she is an alumnus of Bristol Translates. Her poetry translations from German and Hungarian were published in Modern Poetry in Translation, Cyphers and Pamenar Magazine, prose appeared in Hungarian Literature Online and Asymptote.
In her writing as well as in her visual art, Csilla is interested in evoking unheard, forgotten or suppressed voices. She will develop new work at Cove Park, focussing on the interlace between her writing, translations and digital art.