He is probably in his seventies (it’s hard to tell whether his face is deeply wrinkled or just dirty). He told me that his mother named him István after Hungary’s first king. His parents died when he was still a baby. He was placed in an orphanage, and after graduating at 18 he was given an apprenticeship in the printing plant for the national Communist daily newspaper. He lost his job when the newspaper began to crumble during the 1989 government collapse and had been homeless ever since …
Bio:
Zary Fekete grew up in Hungary. His debut novella, Words on the Page, has just been released by DarkWinter Press, and his short story collection, To Accept the Things I Cannot Change: Writing My Way Out of Addiction, was published earlier this year by Creative Texts (see Twitter and Instagram: @ZaryFekete).