Peter Andrew Sherwood (born 30 September 1948,

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

) is a British Professor of Linguistics, who was born in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

, and left the country with his family after 1956. He is a writer, editor, translator and

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and as the Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

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Personal life

Peter Sherwood is married, his wife is Julia Sherwood, née Kalinová, they have one daughter.

Career

Education

Manchester Grammar School The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) in Manchester, England, is the largest independent school (UK), independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1515 as a Grammar school#free tuition, free grammar school next to Manchester C ...

, England, (1960–1966) *

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

, 1970., (BA), *

, 1976., (Diploma in Linguistics)

Professional experience

*2008-2014 Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished professor of

Hungarian language Hungarian () is an Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarian ...

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,

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visiting lecturer In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

, 1999, *Outside United Kingdom: #University of Szeged, Hungary: visiting lecturer, November–December 2006, #University of Rome: visiting lecturer, November 1995, #

University of Debrecen ThUniversity of Debrecen( hu, Debreceni Egyetem) is a university located in Debrecen, Hungary. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest continuously operating institution of higher education in Hungary ever since its ...

: 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 The Hungarian Order of Merit ( hu, Magyar Érdemrend) is the fourth highest State Order of Hungary. Founded in 1991, the order is a revival of an original order founded in 1946 and abolished in 1949. Its origins, however, can be traced to the O ...

* 2003: G. F. Cushing Prize of the British-Hungarian Fellowship (London) for "outstanding contribution 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 * 2020: Budavári Tóth Árpád Műfordítói Díj,

Membership of professional organizations

*2008–, Linguistic Society of America, *2008–, American Hungarian Educators' Association, *1996–2007, British Hungarian Fellowship (London) Executive Committee member, *1975 onwards, International Association of Hungarian Studies, Budapest, *1971 onwards, Philological Society, London, *1970 onwards, 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. *Review: M. Kontra in: Modern Nyelvoktatás (Budapest) VII. évf. 2–3 sz. 2001. September; 102–104. *The BUDALEX Guide to Hungarian istributed at the Third International Congress of the European Association for Lexicography, EURALEX, Budapest 4–9 September 1988 Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 1988. 12 pp.

Dictionary editing

*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. **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.

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.

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. *'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. *"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

Published translations

Books

*: ''St. Margaret of Scotland and Hungary.'' Glasgow: John Burns & Sons. 1973, 63 pp. *’s four film-scripts ''Love spells and death rites in Hungary.'' London: Institute of Contemporary Arts/Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó. 1986. 205 pp. , (stitched) *

Béla Hamvas Béla Hamvas (23 March 1897 – 7 November 1968) was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and social critic. He was the first thinker to introduce the Traditionalist School of René Guénon to Hungary. Biography Béla Hamvas was born on 23 Marc ...

: ''Trees.'' Szentendre : Editio M, 2006, 64 pp. *

Miklós Vámos ] Miklós Vámos originally Tibor Vámos, (born 29 January 1950) is a Hungarian writer, novelist, screenwriter, translator and talkshow host, who has published 33 books. Biography Vámos was born in Budapest, the son of Tibor Vámos and Erzséb ...

: ''The Book of Fathers.'' London: Abacus (an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group Ltd.) 2006, 474 pp. ; , (paperback format, reissued January 2007. 4th printing, June 2007) *

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

: Europe’s oppresive legacy. In: ''Comparative Central European Holocaust studies,'' 2009. * Noémi Szécsi: ''The Finno-Ugrian Vampire,'' London : Stork Press Ltd., 2012. 14 October, ,The Finno-Ugrian Vampire
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: ''The Philosophy of Wine.'' Budapest : Medio, 2016, 115 pp., *

Antal Szerb Antal Szerb (1 May 1901, Budapest – 27 January 1945, Balf) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century. Life and career Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilate ...

: ''Reflections in the Library: selected literary essays 1926–1944.'' Cambridge: Legenda 2016. 132 pp. *

Ádám Bodor Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in Cluj) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin. Life and writing Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly anti-communist father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed i ...

: ''The Birds of Verhovina.'' Jantar Publishing, 2022, 280 pp., * Krisztina Tóth: ''Barcode.'' To be published on 1 December 2022, Jantar Publishing, 234 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

Sources

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Peter Sherwood webpage

External links

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