Steve Szilagyi

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Steve Szilagyi is a critic, journalist, novelist and the author of Photographing Fairies (Ballantine, 1992), and co-author, with Bill Mesce Jr., of The Advocate (Bantam, 2000).

Ohio-born Szilagyi (pronounced Sil-AH-jee) graduated with honors from Columbia University, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant. [1]

A painter and illustrator, Szilagyi has published drawings in New York Magazine and other national publications. [2]

Photographing Fairies , his first novel, was short-listed for the 1993 World Fantasy Award. [3] It was later adapted into the 1997 movie Photographing Fairies starring Ben Kingsley, and directed by Nick Willing. [4]

Szilagyi is a Pushcart Prize Outstanding Writer, [5] the winner of a Cleveland Emmy Award (1996), [6] and the First Place winner for Best Arts Writing, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists awards (2000).

References

  1. ↑ Cleveland Plain Dealer, Novelist Draws on the Power of Childhood Beliefs, August 2, 1992, p.1H,
  2. ↑ Cleveland Plain Dealer, Novelist Draws on the Power of Childhood Beliefs, August 2, 1992, p 9H
  3. ↑ "World Fantasy Awards -- Complete Listing". Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  4. ↑ "Photographing Fairies". IMDb .
  5. ↑ Pushcart Prize XI, Outstanding Writers Steve Szilagyi "The Aluminum Cage"
  6. ↑ Cleveland Plain Dealer, WJW, WEWS Top Local Stations in Regional Emmy Contest, June 8, 1997, p 5B.
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