The Photographer at Sixteen (Szirtes, 2019) - Weekend Classics

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:22:29Hindi Podcast Start at 00:40:35Hungarian Podcast Start at 00:58:21ReferenceThe Photographer at Sixteen : Szirtes, George: Amazon.in: Books. (2019). Amazon.in. https://www.amazon.in/PHOTOGRAPHER-AT-SIXTEEN-RADIO-BOOK/dp/085705855XMorrison, B. (2019, March 16). The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes review – a brilliant, scrupulous portrait. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/16/the-photographer-at-sixteen-by-george-szirtes-reviewSeymour, M. (2019, January 25). The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes — snapshots of a captive subject. @FinancialTimes; Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/a04fda7e-0f7b-11e9-b2f2-f4c566a4fc5fSzőke, D. (2020). Szirtes, George. 2019. The Photographer at Sixteen-The Death and Life of a Fighter. Quercus, London: Maclehose Press. 205 pp. Hungarian Cultural Studies, 13, 257-259. https://doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.412Huen, A. (2019). Photographs, Photography and the Photographer: A conversation with George Szirtes. Wasafiri, 34(3), 59–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2019.1613016Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherConnect on linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/🎙️✨ Welcome, listeners, to “Revise and Resubmit” — and this weekend, we’re diving into another spellbinding episode of “Weekend Classics”!📚 Today’s feature takes us through light, loss, and the language of survival — a memoir that rewinds time to reveal the woman behind the lens. It’s called “The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and the Life of a Fighter”, written by the extraordinary poet and translator George Szirtes — published by MacLehose Press back in 2019.🕰️ It begins with an ending — a mother’s final breath in an ambulance in 1975 — and then, in prose as delicate as a photograph fading in reverse, it travels back through memory, exile, and war. This is not just a book about death. It’s about how life insists on remembering, even when memory hurts.🎞️ George Szirtes — Hungarian-born, refugee, poet, translator of the 2025 Nobel Laureate László Krasznahorkai, and winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize — picks up the fragments of his mother’s life and turns them into a quiet symphony of survival. His words remind us that even silence can have texture, and even tragedy can have tenderness.So, grab your coffee, pause your weekend scroll, and think with me — when we look at an old photograph, are we seeing memory… or are we seeing ourselves? 🤔📸💫 Huge thanks to George Szirtes for this hauntingly beautiful work and for teaching us that reversing a story can sometimes bring it closer to the truth.🎧 Don’t forget to subscribe to “Revise and Resubmit” on Spotify, follow our visual deep dives on YouTube at “Weekend Researcher”, and tune in anywhere you love your stories — we’re also on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast.Stay curious, stay reflective — and until next time, keep revising the way you see the world. 🌍💬