Kovács Jolánka

Jolánka Kovács was born on March 13, 1958, in Zrenjanin. She graduated from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. She lives in Mužlja, where she works as a librarian at the Mihály Szervó Primary School and is the artistic director of the János Sziveri Art Stage in Mužlja.

From 1994 to 1998, she was a staff member of Bánáti Újság, a supplement to Hét Nap, and from 1998 to 2002, she worked for Családi Kör. From 2005 to 2009, she edited the children's program Körtemuzsika for Zeppelin Radio in Mužlja. From 2004 to 2016, she was a proofreader and a member of the editorial board for the literary and art journal Sikoly.

From 1980 to 1998, she was a Hungarian mother tongue teacher at the Testvériség-egység Primary School in Elemir. Between 1998 and 2000, she taught mother tongue preservation at the Mihály Szervó Primary School in Mužlja, where she has been working as a school librarian since 2000.

To date, she has published two collections of short stories, one children's book, and seventeen volumes of literary translations (translating from Serbian to Hungarian and from Hungarian to Serbian).

Her short stories and translations have been published in journals in Vojvodina, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania.