Bernard ADams
Bernard Adams has published more than thirty translations from Hungarian, ranging from the eighteenth-century Kelemen Mikes's Letters from Turkey to Dezső Kosztolányi's Kornél Esti of the 1930s. He moved to Hungary in 2006 and has been awarded two PEN American Center translation fund awards, two second places in the UK John Dryden translation competition, and two translation awards from the Füst Milán Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He currently lives in Zánka, a village on the north shore of the beautiful Lake Balaton in western Hungary.
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World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020