Rumors of Attila Ambrus’s death are a hoax.
Here’s the article in Hungarian, can be translated with Google.
http://www.parameter.sk/rovat/bulvar/2013/04/23/ambrus-attilanak-halalhiret-keltettek
More on the story is at: www.whiskeyrobber.com
[photo: Hir24]
Speaking about multi-format storytelling at the Power of Narrative conference in Boston, including adaptations of Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, global storytelling project Newsmotion.org and upcoming work at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Alongside Charlie Homans, writer and executive editor of The Atavist, and Erin Polgreen, editor and publisher of illustrated magazine, Symbolia.
Thanks to John Green, the author of Time magazine’s #1 Book of the Year, for picking Ballad of the Whiskey Robber as his #1 Book of the Year. And thanks Slate and Audible.com for picking the Digital Cabaret Recording of the book as its #1 Pick of the Week. It is a totally independent production starring Eric Bogosian, Gary Shteyngart, Demetri Martin, Jonathan Ames, Arthur Phillips, Darin Strauss, Samantha Power, Jonathan Spottiswoode, Tommy Ramone (!), Eugene Mirman and others. To hear a clip: