(Budapest, 1942), Editorin- Chief of Hungarian Review
and of Magyar Szemle, is the author of nine collections of poetry,
scholarly and literary essays and translations.
He taught English and American Literature at Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest in 1970–1989. He received research and teaching
fellowships to Britain and the US. He taught at the University of
California in Santa Barbara (1984–85) and at Emory University in Atlanta
(2004–2009), and read his poetry in English widely in the US In 1987,
he was a founding member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF). In
1990–94, he served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime
Minister. In 2000–2005 he was an Adviser to President Ferenc Mádl. In
2002, he received the Attila József Prize for Literature, in 2005 the
President’s Medal of Honour for his public and literary achievements.
With Magyar Szemle, he received a Prima Prize in 2003.
Gyula
Kodolányi /b. January 23, 1942, Budapest/ writer,
politician, scholar, editor-in-chief of Magyar
Szemle (Hungarian Review, a bi-monthly).
November 2006. Distinguished Presidential
Lecturer, Singapore Management University.
January-May 2006. Senior Visiting Scholar,
Emory University, Atlanta, teaching a course on Modern Hungarian Culture,
giving public lectures and a poetry reading under the auspices of the Halle
Institute.
May 2004. Distinguished Visiting Fellow,
College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara.
January-May 2004. Senior Visiting
Professor, Emory College, Emory University, Atlanta, teaching a course on the
East Central European Transition, giving public lectures and poetry readings.
June 2003. Amerika ideje (America’s Time. Essays on Modenism and Modernity).
Kossuth University Publishers, Debrecen and Magyar Szemle, Budapest. 440 pages.
January 2002. Táncban a sötéttel (Dancing with the Dark). Collected Poems
1971-2001. Kortárs, Budapest, 256 pp.
January 2001-August 2005. Adviser to the
President of the Republic.
June 1999. Kentaurszárnyak (Kentaur’s Wings). Selected Essays and Interviews, 1968-1998.
Kortárs, Budapest, 422 pp.
April 1998-2002. Editor-in-Chief, then Art
Director, Színkép (Spectrum). Weekly cultural television
program, TV2, Budapest.
June 1997. Január (January). Poems, 1989-1996. Kortárs, Budapest, 73 pp.
September 1992 - present. Editor-in-Chief, Magyar Szemle, an intellectual and
political monthly, since 1997 bi-monthly
October 1992- February 1996. Vice Chairman,
Hungária Television Foundation /operators of Duna Televizió, the state-owned
Hungarian satellite channel/. February 1996-September 1997: Member of the Board
of Trustees.
September 1992- March 1993. Co-Founder and
Acting Chairman, Hungarian Atlantic Council.
May 1991- December 2004. Member of the
Board, Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation.
April 1991. Wilson Visiting Professor,
College of St. Mary's, Moraga, California. Lectures on politics and poetry,
poetry reading.
October 1990. Reading poetry at the
National Poetry Week IV, Fort Mason, San Francisco.
November 1990-July 1994. Senior Adviser on
Foreign Policy to the Prime Minister, with the rank of Titular State Secretary.
May 1990-November 1990. Senior Adviser on
Foreign Policy to Prime Minister József Antall.
1991. A lét hálói (Nets of Being).Collected poetry translations of G.K. from the American. Európa
Publishers, Budapest, 157 pp.
1990. The French modern dance group Theatre
Jel, of the National Center of Dance in Orleans, presents at the Theatre de la Ville de Paris The Death of the Emperor, a dance play with words, written in 1989 with composer
György Szabados and Choreographer Josef Nadj.
1989. Hatalmak.
(Powers). New and Selected Poems, Liget Books, Budapest, 106 pp.
1989. Co-Founder, Department of American
Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
September 1987. Founding Member of
Hungarian Democratic Forum, first opposition party in Hungary since 1956.
1984-85. Fulbright Professor of American
and Hungarian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Teaching
literature courses and creative writing.
November 1981. A tenger és a tél szüntelen (The Sea and the
Wind Endlessly). Poems. Szépirodalmi, Budapest, 142 pp.
1978-1988 . Participation in
"underground" opposition activities.
1972-73. ACLS Research Fellow in American
Literature at Yale University.
1970-present. Translator and editor of
anthologies and works in Hungarian by American authors including Henry Adams,
Lewis Mumford, William Carlos Williams and many others. Co-Translator and
editor of poems translated from the Hungarian into English, in collaboration
with William Jay Smith, Charles Tomlinson, Clayton Eshleman and others. Author
of critical and scholarly essays on modern American and English writing,
published in Hungarian and English.
1970-1989. Teaching American and English
Literature, and Comparative Literature /1985-89/ at Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest.
1969-70. Three-month British Council
Scholarship for research in Britain on modern poetry, under the tutelage of
poet and professor Charles Tomlinson, Bristol University.
1966-1970. English Editor at Corvina Press,
Budapest.
Education:
M.A. in English, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1966.
Distinctions:
September 1983. Mikes Kelemen Prize /The
Hague, Netherlands/ for Best Hungarian
Book of the Year 1982, awarded by Hungarian writers in exile for A tenger és a szél szüntelen.
May 1996, Brussels. European Order of Merit
/Ordre Européen du Mérit/ for political and civic activities.
March 2002, Budapest. József Attila Prize
for literature.
December 2003, Prima Primissima Prize, 2nd
grade, for Magyar Szemle review.
July 2005. President's Medal of Merit for
professional and public service.
Family: Married to Mária Anna Illyés, art historian and critic, 1965.
Son Bálint born in 1976. Daughter
Judit born in 1978.
Budapest, November 2005
Home address: Budapest 1025, Józsefhegyi út
9. Hungary
Phone 36-1-326 20 29, Fax
36-1-326 18 50.
e-mail: gkodo@freemail.hu
gkodola@emory.edu
