Idris Kovács is a Hungarian-Scottish writer and translator whose work explores liminal coastlines, folk belief, and the mechanics of grief. Raised between Budapest's Újbuda district and the Moray Firth, he studied folklore at the University of Aberdeen and completed an MA in Translation at Eötvös Loránd University. His short fiction has appeared in Interzone, Gutter, and The White Review, and his translations have introduced English-language readers to contemporary Hungarian weird fiction. He has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award and longlisted for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
From a small flat in Glasgow's Govanhill, Idris Kovács volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and co-runs a micropress for pamphlet-length ghost stories. He is the author of the novellas Salt Stag (2016) and Black Water Tongue (2019), and he frequently gives talks on lighthouse lore at the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses in Fraserburgh.
