Peter Hargitai

Peter Hargitai is an award-winning translator, poet and novelist. His selection of the poems of Attila József in Perched on Nothing’s Branch garnered for him the Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award and a listing among world classics in Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon. For his translation of Antal Szerb’s novel The Traveler, he was awarded the Füst Milán Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and for his steadfast commitment to translating, publishing, and teaching Hungarian literature in a world language, he was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal from the Republic of Hungary. Professor Hargitai is on the English faculty at Florida International University.

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