About
Mirjam Donath is a writer. Here is her story:
Born and raised in Budapest, I'm deeply rooted in Hungary -- yet, for the last 25 years, I've kept leaving it, for months, for years, for decades. Only a Hungarian can enjoy Hungary as home sweet home. And they often don't.
In Budapest, I earned an M.A. in English and Communication and worked as a radio reporter before moving to New York. I graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism with the support of the Fulbright grant among other amazing scholarships. 🙏🏻 I also graduated from New York University -- this time with a certificate in Business and Economic Reporting -- and joined Reuters, the news agency in New York City, for six years.
I've loved being a journalist.
It is not true that journalism finishes off a writer, as has so often been said — rather, just the opposite, so long as one leaves it behind soon enough,
Hemingway said. I tend to agree with the man on matters regarding writing. He also thought that war is the one single experience that a writer needs. That's because he has never experienced motherhood.
Today I fight the battle of letting go. During the past five years while my babies learned to sleep through the night, I forgot how to. I lost a home, a true love, an identity and my father.
I am not anymore sure that letting go is the answer to the pain that follows loss. One should never give any answer to the pain. One should feel the pain, then turn it into creation. So I'm busy with creating -- currently working on a Hungarian essay series on grief -- and the day I graduate from loss, I will share with you just how the (literary) hell one can came out of the other side. Stay tuned.
My hope is that one day my grandchildren will read this blog. I realize that I can die at any moment and if I don't share my login and payment details with someone who cares, this blog will die with me...so I am not sure how to leave all this behind. Maybe finding my art here is just like everything else in life: an unrepeatable experience. I invite you to come back often, read what you can, give me your feedback, be part of my community by signing up for free:
read my books (will have one in English, will have one in English!), and be my literary patron (in other words a Renaissance woman or man for whom supporting an artist equals to showing up with a Rolls-Royce 🌟).
Since my children have a Brazilian father who is an American citizen, there is no way for me to predict my grandchildren's mother tongue, so I decided to work in English too. It's a bilingual website. Click on English posts for my English stories, and find what I think I'm after: joy in the unrepeatable.
Welcome and love,
CONTACT: mirusdonath@gmail.com