Judit Vihar () (born 28 August 1944) is a Hungarian

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, Japanologist, professor emerita, translator, haiku poet and head of The Hungary–Japan Friendship Society. She has been active in the relationship between Japan and Hungary for decades. She is fluent in Hungarian, Japanese, Russian and Bulgarian.

Biography and carrier

Judit Vihar was born on 28 August 1944 in Budapest. Her parents were poet

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and Magda Widder, the daughter of painter

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. She took M. A. degrees at the

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of the

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...

, Faculty of Arts in Hungarian,

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and Japanese in 1968. Since 1975 she has been teaching at Eötvös Loránd University and also at the

Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (Hungarian: ''Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem'') is a Christian university in Budapest, Hungary. The university has more than 7000 students. The university has four faculties and ...

since 1996. She has been the president of the Association of Japanese Studies and also of the Hungary-Japan Friendship Society since 2001. In 2002 she won 1st prize of the World Haiku Conference, the English language haiku competition in Japan. In 2009 she received

Order of the Rising Sun The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese government, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight ...

, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. She organized World Haiku Festival in Pécs, Hungary in 2010. She translated into Hungarian Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe’s novel,

The Silent Cry ''The Silent Cry'' (Japanese 万延元年のフットボール; ''Man'nen gan'nen no futtoboru'', literally ''Football in the First Year of Man'en'') is a novel by Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe, first published in Japanese in 1967 and awarded th ...

. In 2015 the first Japanese-Hungarian Dictionary was published and she was honored for her participation in that work by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2016.

References

Awards and honors

*Pro Universitate,

– 2000 *

, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon – 2009

Bibliography

Selected works

Papers

*The Spirit of Haiku. In: ''The Japanese Traditional Thought and the Present''. Prague, February 1996. pp. 163–168. *On the Northern of the Far East. Essay. World Haiku Review Volume 3. Issue1. March 2003. On the Northern of the Far East. Essay. World Haiku Review Volume 3. Issue1. March 2003. * Haiku poetess from Hungary – Judit Vihar. Almanach GINKO. Sophia, 2006. 34. *Ezer magyar haiku (Thousand Hungarian haiku), 2010.

Books

*''A japán irodalom rövid története'' (''A short history of Japanese Literature''), 1994. *Haiku poetry in Hungary. Románia, Constanza, 7. Haiku Fesztivál. Ovidius Egyetem, 2012. *Preface. 序文. Prólogo. In: Sayumi Kamakura: Seven Sunsets. 七つの夕日. Siete atardeceres. Haiku collection. Allahabad, India, Cyberwitnet, 2013. pp. 4–14.

Ph.D. Thesis

*Archaism and dialect in translations of Mikszáth’s novels Issuing Institution, Eötvös Loránd University, 2001.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vihar, Judit 1944 births Literary historians Academic staff of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary Japanologists Living people Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class Eötvös Loránd University alumni Hungarian translators 21st-century Hungarian poets Hungarian women poets Women literary historians 21st-century Hungarian women writers Haiku poets 21st-century translators