Zsófia Bán was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1957 and grew up in Brazil and Hungary.
She is a writer, literary historian, and critic. Her story collection Night School: A Reader for Adults, for which she received the Attila József Prize for literature, was published in 2007. She also received the Péter Balassa Prize for essay writing and criticism in 2007.
Her latest book, Test Packing, includes essays on European art, literature, and visual culture, as well as travel writing and short fiction. The volume received the Palladium Prize in 2009. Her short stories have been widely anthologized, and she is working on a new volume of short stories and a novel.
She lives and works in Budapest, where she is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University in the Department of American Studies
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