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À propos des auteurs

Johanna Domokos (1970 -) is a poet and comparative literary scholar of indigenous cultures and minority literatures with expertise in Scandinavian and Central European areas (especially Sámi, Finnish, German and Hungarian). She has published 13 volumes of poetry to date, edited more than 20 scholarly volumes and authored four monographs. Affiliated with the University of Bielefeld in Germany and the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, she is also an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Science.

Peter V. Czipott (1954 -), born in California to Hungarian émigré parents, obtained his Ph.D. in physics and made a career in R&D. He began translating poetry with John Ridland in 2002 and continues on his own. His latest volume, Inebriate of Dawn, comprises selected poems by Dezső Kosztolányi, including some of the final fruits of his collaboration with Ridland. He has received the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit (2020) and the Bálint Balassi Memorial Sword (2023) for his literary efforts.

London-born John M. Ridland (1933 - 2020) lived most of his life in California, for over four decades a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He published eleven volumes of original verse, and translations from the Middle English (Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl) and Hungarian (Petőfi's John the Valiant) in addition to volumes of selected verse of Márai and Radnóti with Peter Czipott. He received the Bálint Balassi Memorial Sword in 2010.

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