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{{Short description|American writer}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Szilvia Molnar
|image=Szilvia Molnar 2023 Texas Book Festival.jpg
|caption=Molnar at the 2023 [[Texas Book Festival]]
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1984}}
|birth_place=[[Budapest]], Hungary
|occupation=Writer
|nationality=American
|children=2
|website={{url|http://www.szilviamolnar.com}}
}}
'''Szilvia Molnar''' (born 1984) is
==Life==
Molnar was born in 1984 in [[Budapest]] and raised in southern [[Sweden]].<ref name="Roadster">"[https://roadster.hu/szilvia-molnar-interju/ Budapestről az irodalmi elitbe – Szilvia Molnar-interjú]" by Izing Róbert, Roadster (Hungary), 2022-09-22.</ref><ref name="Konyves">"[https://konyvesmagazin.hu/nagy/szil_molnar_usa_open_books.html Szilvia Molnar: A világot jelenti nekem, hogy megjelenik magyarul a könyvem]" by Ruff Orsolya, Könyves Magazin, September 8, 2022.</ref> She and her parents immigrated to Sweden around 1989<ref name="Konyves"/> and still mostly speak [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] among themselves.<ref name="Konyves"/>
Molnar was born in [[Budapest]] and was raised in Sweden. She grew up in a working class family. Her father was a machinist and her mother was a nurse.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Loren |first1=Sammy |title=Szilvia Molnar's 'The Nursery' paints a grim portrait of parenthood |url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/05/szilvia-molnar-the-nursery-new-book-debut-trad-wives-postpartum-depression-motherhood/ |website=Document |date=18 May 2023 |publisher=Tom Bailey |access-date=6 October 2023}}</ref>▼
▲Molnar's
Molnar has worked in the publishing industry for 14 years, most recently as the foreign rights director for the [[Sterling Lord]] literary agency.<ref name="Bookseller">"[https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/oneworld-wins-auction-for-foreign-rights-directors-debut Oneworld wins auction for foreign rights director's debut]" by Ruth Comerford, ''[[The Bookseller]]'', April 6, 2022.</ref> She said ''The Nursery'' is her "attempt to explain the complex and conflicting emotions that can arise when motherhood is suddenly knocking at your door, like some pesky neighbour complaining that your baby is crying."<ref name="Bookseller"/>▼
▲Molnar has worked in the publishing industry for
She lives in [[Austin, Texas]] and has two children.<ref>"[https://www.texasobserver.org/szilvia-molnar-postpartum-book-review/ A Postpartum Page-Turner: Austin author's memoir-esque novel about motherhood is both engaging—and disturbing]" by Roberto Ontiveros, [[The Texas Observer=]], May 15, 2023.</ref>▼
▲In addition to Sweden, Molnar has previously lived in [[London]], [[Budapest]] and [[Brooklyn]].<ref name="Ordfront"/><ref>''Women in Clothes'' by Sheila Heti, [[Riverhead Books]], 2014, page 513.</ref> She currently lives in [[Austin, Texas]]
== Writing career ==
Molnar made her writing debut in 2005 with works published in literary periodicals in Sweden and the United Kingdom. In 2006, she won a writing competition in ''[[Ordfront|Ordfront Magasin]]''<ref name="Ordfront"/> and an award for translating [[Imre Oravecz]] from Hungarian into Swedish.
Molnar's debut novel ''The Nursery'' was released in 2023 by [[Oneworld Publications|Oneworld]] in the United Kingdom and [[Pantheon Books]] in North America.<ref name="Bookseller"/> In a review in ''[[The New York Times]]'', Claire Dederer called ''The Nursery'' a "brilliant debut novel about a new mom falling apart within the four walls of her apartment" and added that the novel is "relentlessly quotable."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dederer |first=Claire |date=2023-03-18 |title=The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is Exhausted |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/books/review/the-nursery-szilvia-molnar.html |access-date=2023-08-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>▼
Her [[chapbook]] ''Soft Split'' was released by Future Tense Books in 2016. The story follows "a nameless female protagonist as she escapes from her unfulfilling day-to-day into psychosexual dream states."<ref>[http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/a-conversation-with-szilvia-molnar-on-soft-split-psychosexual-dreams a conversation with szilvia molnar on 'soft split' & psychosexual dreams]" by Meredith Alling, ''Luna Luna Magazine'', January 8, 2016.</ref>
▲Molnar's debut novel ''The Nursery'' was released in 2023 by [[Oneworld Publications|Oneworld]] in the United Kingdom and [[Pantheon Books]] in North America.<ref name="Bookseller"/> In a review in ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Claire Dederer]] called ''The Nursery'' a "brilliant debut novel about a new mom falling apart within the four walls of her apartment" and added that the novel is "relentlessly quotable."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dederer |first=Claire |date=2023-03-18 |title=The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is Exhausted |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/books/review/the-nursery-szilvia-molnar.html |access-date=2023-08-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In ''[[The Atlantic]]'', [[Daphne Merkin]] called ''The Nursery'' "a powerful brew of a novel, emitting unpleasant sights, smells, and emotions that are rarely captured in print; it is frequently disquieting in its brutal, insistent candor."<ref>"[https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/03/szilvia-molnar-the-nursery-book-review/673566/ A Tale of Maternal Ambivalence]" by [[Daphne Merkin]], The Atlantic, March 31, 2023.</ref>
Molnar's work has also appeared in [[Guernica (magazine)|Guernica]], [[Literary Hub]], [[Neue Rundschau]] and other literary magazines.<ref>"[https://www.guernicamag.com/author/szilvia-molnar/ Szilvia Molnar]," ''[[Guernica (magazine)|Guernica]]'', accessed October 9, 2023.</ref>
== Bibliography ==
* ''Soft Split,'' Future Tense Books, 2015, {{ISBN|9781892061768}}
* ''The Nursery,'' Pantheon Books, 2023. {{ISBN|9780593316849}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-02 |title=BOMB Magazine {{!}} Szilvia Molnar's The Nursery |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/szilvia-molnar-the-nursery/ |access-date=2023-08-26 |website=BOMB Magazine
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official|http://www.szilviamolnar.com/}}
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[[Category:21st-century American novelists]]
[[Category:American women novelists]]
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