Miklós Vámos
From 17 May to 13 June 2024

The Hungarian journalist, playwright and writer Miklós Vámos has published over forty books. His work has been translated into several languages and has won a number of awards. The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Hungarians was cowritten in English (Oval Books, 1999); The Book of Fathers (Other Press, 2009) is an English version of his best-known Hungarian novel, Apák könyve, translated by Peter Sherwood. After earning a PhD from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of ELTE, he worked as a scriptwriter at Objektív Filmstudio and went on to cofound and head a publishing house, Ab Ovo. He has also served as the East European correspondent for the weekly The Nation, hosted for a number of years a succession of popular cultural shows on Hungarian television, and taught at several prestigious American universities.