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Nationality
  
English

Education
  
University of London

Role
  
Writer


Name
  
Peter Sherwood

Alma mater
  
University of London

Residence
  
London, United Kingdom

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Born
  
30 September 1948 (
1948-09-30
)
Budapest, Hungary

Website
  
Julia and Peter Sherwood

Books
  
A Concise Introduction to Hungarian, Hungary

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Peter Andrew Sherwood (born 30 September 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.

Contents

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The book of fathers miklos vamos and peter sherwood


Personal life

Peter Sherwood is married, his wife Júlia Kálinova, he has one daughter.

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:
    1. University of Szeged, Hungary: visiting lecturer, November–December 2006,
    2. University of Rome: visiting lecturer, November 1995,
    3. University of Debrecen, Hungary: visiting lecturer, March 1995,
    4. 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,

    • 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 1-900755-83-1
  • '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

    • Books

  • Noemi Szécsi: The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Stork Press Ltd., 2012. 14 October., ISBN 978-0-9571326-6-5,
  • Miklós Vámos The Book of Fathers. London: Abacus (An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Ltd.). 2006. 474 pp. ISBN 978-0-349-11930-4; ISBN 0-349-11930-9, ISBN 978-0-349-11931-1 (paperback format, reissue January 2007. Fourth printing, June 2007)
  • Domokos Moldován's four film-scripts Love spells and death rites in Hungary London: Institute of Contemporary Arts/Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó. 1986. 205 pp.
  • Kázmér Nagy St. Margaret of Scotland and Hungary. – Glasgow: John Burns & Sons. 1973. 63 pp.

    • 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

    • References

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