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

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-born Szilagyi graduated with honors from Columbia University

Columbia University

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, winning the Columbia Bennett Cerf Award for Fiction for his unpublished story collection "The Night Sophia Loren's Dress Caught Fire in a Restaurant".

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

Photographing Fairies, his first novel, was short-listed for the 1993 World Fantasy Award, and was made into the 1997 movie "Photographing Fairies

Photographing Fairies

Photographing Fairies is 1997 fantasy film based on Steve Szilagyi's 1992 novel Photographing Fairies.- Themes :This film explores some of the themes of folk religion such as: possession, paganism, animism, hallucinogens, parapsychology and fairy...

" starring Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

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, and directed by Nick Willing

Nick Willing

Nick Willing is a British director, writer and producer of films and television programs.Willing is the son of Portuguese painter Paula Rego and English artist Victor Willing and was largely brought up in Portugal, but settled in England at the age of 12...

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Szilagyi is a Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....

Outstanding Writer, winner of a Cleveland Emmy Award (1996), and First Place winner for Best Arts Writing, Ohio Society of Professional Journalists awards (2000).

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