Anna Terék is a poet and playwright of the younger generation. She was born in 1984 in Bačka Topola in the former Jugoslavia. She completed secondary school in Subotica (Serbia) and then moved to Budapest. She studied psychology, school psychology, and psychological counselling at Eötvös Loránd University. She completed her studies in 2012. Currently, she lives in Budapest and works as school psychologist.

Terék’s first book of poetry, Mosolyszakadás (Interrupted smile), was published in 2007. For her second book of poetry, Duna utca (Duna Street), which was published in 2011, she received the Ervin Sinkó Prize. She is also the author of the drama book Vajdasági lakodalom (Wedding in Vojvodina), published in 2016. Her first play, Jelentkezzenek a legjobbak! / Neka se jave najbolji! (The best should apply!), was premiered in 2013 at the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad. In 2017 her third book of poetry Halott nők (Dead women) came out and was highly acclaimed by critics and readers.

Terék won many important awards in Hungary, the János Sziveri Award (2018) or the Csáth Géza Award (2019) just to mention a few. She is also a beneficiary of János Térey Scholarship (2020).

Her works were translated into many languages: German, Spanish, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Turkish and Polish.