Beszelgetes Kodolányi Gyulaval / Discussions with Gyula Kodolányi

Mult heten kerult levetitesre az utolso film. Kodolányi professzor ur talakozik velunk egy kotetlen beszelgetesre az Everybody’s vendegloben jovo szerdan 7-tol 9-ig.

Ezuton is szeretnem megkoszonni professzor urnak es az Emory egyetemnek hogy meghivtak minket a filmbemutatasokra.

Rovid biografia: Kodolányi Gyula: kolto, mufordito, irodalomtortenesz. 1987-1990 reszt vet a renszervalto ellenzeki mozgalomban. 1990-1994: miniszterelnoksegi allamtitkar. 1992 ota a Magyar Szemle foszerkesztoje. 2004 ota az Emory Egyetemen tanit. Fobb elismeresek: 2002 Jozsef Attila-dij, 2005 a Koztarsasagi Elnok Erdemerme. Fobb muvei: Okologiai kapcsolatok (Szerk. 1984), A letezes haloi (Amerikai koltok, ford., 1990), Kentaurszarnyak (Esszek, interjuk, 1999), Tancban a sotettel (Oszegyujtott versek 2002), Amerika ideje (Esszek, 2003), A hullam taraja (Esszek, interjuk, 2006)

Last Wednesday marked the end of the semester with the last film. Professor Kodolányi will be meeting us for an informal discussion at Everybody’s from 7-9pm.

Gyula Kodolányi:
Senior Visiting Scholar in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Gyula Kodolányi is the author of several collections of poetry, essays and translations. His first collection of poetry, The Sea and the Wind Endlessly, published in 1981, was awarded the Mikes Kelemen Prize for best book of the year by Hungarian writers in exile.
Kodolányi has played a significant role in Hungarian politics since the late 1970s. As a poet and professor of English and American literature, he was drawn at that time into the growing Hungarian opposition. He was a founding member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) in 1987, which won parliamentary elections three years later and formed Hungary’s first democratic government since 1948. He served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Ministers József Antall and Péter Boross in 1990-94, on U.S. and European relations, with a special focus on NATO integration. Since that time, he has continued both his political and his poetic activities, advising former Hungarian President Ferenc Mádl, and editing a political and intellectual bimonthly, Magyar Szemle in Budapest.

I want to thank him and Emory University for allowing us to attend his film screenings.