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Areas of Interest:
l9th- and 20th-century European literature and history
and Holocaust studies.
Education:
Ph.D., German Language and Literature, University of Texas
at Austin, 1968
Concert Diploma (Piano), State Academy of Music at Hamburg,
1961
Final Diploma (Piano), Bartok Bela School of Musical
Arts, 1955
Recent Publications:
Orfeusz myomában: Radnóti Miklós
élete és kora. Budapest: Akadémiai
kiadó, 2004.
In the Footsteps of Orpheus: the Life and Times
of Miklós Radnóti. Bloomington: Indiana
UP, 2000-2001.
Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti (with
F. Turner). Budapest: Corvina, 2000 (expanded edition
of Princeton: UP, 1992).
"Radnóti, Celan, and the Holocaust
in Eastern-European Poetry." In Comparative
Cultural Studies and Post-1989 Central European Culture.
West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2002.
"Paul Celan," "Jerzy Kosinski,"
"Miklos Radnoti," and "Nelli Sachs,"
in Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature, eds.
David Patterson and Alan Berger, Westport-London: Oryx
Press, 2002.
The Iron-Blue Vault: Attilla Josef, Selected Poems
(with F. Turner), 1999
Foamy Sky: The Major Poems
of Miklos Radnoti (with F. Turner), 1992
Awards:
Frankfurt Book Fair Prize for The Iron-Blue Vault,
1999
Milan Fust Literary Award, National Academy of Sciences,
1995
IREX Award, 1991
Fulbright Award, 1990 |
