Birds of Verhovina

Adam Bodor is an author of Transylvanian origin, born in Kolozsvar (today Cluj, Romania) in 1936. He is arguably Hungary's greatest living writer. Peter Sherwood studied Hungarian and linguistics in the University of London before being appointed, in 1972, to a lectureship in Hungarian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (now part of University College London). He taught there until 2007. From 2008 until his retirement in 2014 he was Laszlo Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.