“Nándor Gion, born in 1941 in Srbobran [Szenttamás], Bačka, Vojvodina, moved to Budapest in 1993 and died in a hospital in Szeged in 2002, is one of the most important prose writers of the final decades of twentieth‑century Hungarian literature,” literary historian Tibor Elek concludes in his monograph on the many‑times‑awarded author, recipient of the