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* Miklós Vámos The Book of Fathers. London: Abacus (An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Ltd.). 2006. 474 pp. ISBN --13: 9 780349 119304; ISBN – 10: 0 349 11930 9, ISBN: 978-0-349-11931-1 (paperback format, reissue January 2007. Fourth printing, June 2007) |
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* Noemi Szécsi: The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Stork Press Ltd., ISBN-13 978-0957132665,<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/12/the-finno-ugrian-vampire-review?newsfeed=true The Finno-Ugrian Vampire]</ref> |
* Noemi Szécsi: The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Stork Press Ltd., 2012. october 14., ISBN-13 978-0957132665,<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/12/the-finno-ugrian-vampire-review?newsfeed=true The Finno-Ugrian Vampire]</ref> |
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* 70 Years of Hungarian Studies at the University of London, UCL-SSEES, London, 2007 |
* 70 Years of Hungarian Studies at the University of London, UCL-SSEES, London, 2007 |
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Peter Sherwood | |
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Nationality | English |
Alma mater | University of London |
Awards | Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic |
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Doctoral students | University of London |
Peter Andrew Sherwood (born September 30, 1948, Budapest) is a British Professor of Linguistics, who was born in Hungary, and left the country with his family after 1956. He is a writer, editor, translator and lexicographer and as the Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Book_of_Fathers.jpg)
Illustrated: Jozsef Szurcsik
Personal life
Peter Sherwood is married, his wife Júlia Kálinova, he has one daughter.
Career
Education
- Manchester Grammar School, England, (1960–1966)
- University of London, 1970., (BA),
- University of London, 1976., (Diploma in Linguistics)
Professional experience
- 2008- Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished professor of Hungarian language and culture university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 1972-2007 Lecturer (later: senior lecturer) In Hungarian, school of Slavonic and east European studies, University of London,
(later: University College London)
Visiting lectureship
- United Kingdom, University of Cambridge: visiting lecturer, 1999,
- Outside United Kingdom:
- University of Szeged, Hungary: visiting lecturer, November–December 2006,
- University of Rome: visiting lecturer, November 1995,
- University of Debrecen, Hungary: visiting lecturer, March 1995,
- University of Budapest: visiting lecturer, January 1994,
Honours
- 2011: Lotz János Medal from the International Association for Hungarian Studies
- 2007: Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- 2003: G. F. Cushing Prize of the British-Hungarian Fellowship (London) for “outstanding contribution[s] to Hungarian linguistics, literary translation and for fostering appreciation of Hungarian culture in Great Britain”
- 2001: Pro Cultura Hungarica Hungarian State Prize for contributions to Anglo-Hungarian relations
- 1999: Prize of the Hungarian Milán Füst Foundation
Membership of professional organizations
- 2008-, Linguistic Society of America,
- 2008-, American Hungarian Educators’ Association,
- 1996-2007, British Hungarian Fellowship (London) Executive Committee member,
- 1975- International Association of Hungarian Studies, Budapest,
- 1971- Philological Society, London,
- 1970- Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsinki,
Bibliography
Books
- A Concise Introduction to Hungarian London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. 1996. 139 pp. SSEES Occasional Papers, 34. ISBN 0-903425-57-2
- Review: M. Kontra in: Modern Nyelvoktatás (Budapest) VII. évf. 2-3 sz. 2001. September; 102-104.
- The BUDALEX Guide to Hungarian [Distributed at the Third International Congress of the European Association for Lexicography, EURALEX, Budapest 4–9 September 1988]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 1988. 12 pp.
Dictionaries (co-)edited
- Oxford angol-magyar szótár nyelvtanulóknak English-Hungarian Wordpower Dictionary. Janet Phillips (publisher’s editor), Peter Sherwood (senior editor). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. 768 pp. ISBN 0-19-431531-2.
- New (revised) impression. 2003.
- Third impression 2004.
- Fourth (revised) impression 2006.
- Awarded Outstanding Hungarian Dictionary prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the 4th Day of the Dictionary in Hungary, Budapest, 17 October 2007.
- A Concise Hungarian-English Dictionary. Tamás Magay, László Országh (1907–1984), „Contributing Editor” (de facto co-editor) Peter Sherwood. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. 1144 pp.
- Reviews:
- Eyvor Fogarty Professional Translator and Interpreter (London) No. 3 1990, 43-44;
- R. J. W. Evans Slavonic and East European Review (London) Vol. 69 No. 4 (October 1991), 688;
- Jeffrey Harlig Slavic and East European Journal (USA) Vol. 36 No. 3 (Fall 1992), 376-378.
- Miklós Kontra Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest) Vol. 5 No. 3 (Autumn 1993), 377-380.
Book edited (Editors listed in alphabetical order)
- László Péter, Martyn Rady, Peter Sherwood (eds) Lajos Kossuth sent word... Papers delivered on the occasion of the bicentenary of Kossuth’s birth. SSEES Occasional Papers, 56. London: Hungarian Cultural Centre and School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. 2003. 263 pp. ISBN 0-903425-67-X
Teaching and edited
- Phrasal Verbs: Tanuljuk meg a 100 legfontosabbat! The 100 most important phrasal verbs of English for Hungarian students. Janet Phillips (publisher’s editor), Peter Sherwood (senior editor). Oxford.: Oxford University Press. 2003. 122 pp. ISBN 0-19-431608-4
Chapters
- 'Living through something: notes on the work of Imre Kertész' in: Ritchie Robertson, Joseph Sherman (eds) The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction. Proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference. Legenda Studies in Yiddish, 5. European Humanities Research Centre. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2005. 108-116. ISBN 19000755831
- ‘The label pre-socialist in Hungarian lexicography of the 1950s’ in: R. B. Pynsent (ed) The Phoney Peace. Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945-1949. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies/University College London. SSEES Occasional Papers, 46. 2000. 406-442. ISBN 0-903425-01-7
- “A nation may be said to live in its language”: some socio-historical perspectives on attitudes to Hungarian’ in: Robert B. Pynsent (ed) The Literature of Nationalism. Essays on East European Identity, London: SSEES/Macmillan. 1996. 27-39. ISBN (UK ED) 0-333-66682-8
- ‘Hungarian’ in: A. J. Walford and J. E. O. Screen (eds) A guide to foreign language courses and dictionaries, third edition revised and enlarged. London: The Library Association. 1977. 260-263.
Peer-reviewed articles and papers
- Egy Márai-regény fordításának nyelvészeti problémái. The German and English translations of Sándor Márai’s novel, A gyertyák csonkig égnek: Die Glut and Embers, Hungarológiai Évkönyv 2008. IX. évfolyam. Pécs: PTE BTK. 2008. 124-134. ISSN 1585-9673[1]
Published translations
Books
- Miklós Vámos The Book of Fathers. London: Abacus (An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Ltd.). 2006. 474 pp. ISBN --13: 9 780349 119304; ISBN – 10: 0 349 11930 9, ISBN: 978-0-349-11931-1 (paperback format, reissue January 2007. Fourth printing, June 2007)
- Noemi Szécsi: The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Stork Press Ltd., 2012. october 14., ISBN-13 978-0957132665,[2]
Conferences
- 70 Years of Hungarian Studies at the University of London, UCL-SSEES, London, 2007
- 35 Years of Hungarian Studies at Szeged University, Szeged, 2006
Notes
References
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Peter Sherwood webpage
- Language Unit - Teaching Staff: Peter Sherwood - Publications