Sándor Gál’s work is remarkably wide-ranging: he can lay claim to just under fifty standalone volumes and fully a dozen collected editions. His colourful, extended creative career, from its beginnings to the present day, has made room not only for every literary mode – from lyric to prose to drama – but for almost every genre as well, including publicistic writing alongside belles lettres. An active and prolific life; a rich and substantial œuvre: