PETER HARGITAI is an award-winning translator of Hungarian literature. His unique approach shuns stiff mirror translations in favor of re-creations where it is possible for original texts to thrive as great works in English. His selection of the poems of Attila Jozsef in Perched on Nothing's Branch garnered for him the Academy of American Poets Landon Translation Award and a listing among the world's classics in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon. For his translation of Antal Szerb's novel The Traveler, he was awarded the Fust Milan Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and for his steadfast commitment to translating, publishing, and teaching Hungarian literature in a world language, he was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal from the Republic of Hungary. Professor Hargitai is on the English faculty at Florida International University in Miami.

Book Fair Event

Peter Hargitai - Millie

Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:00 p.m. Location: Books & Books, Coral Gables Not since J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has a voice emerged that is so original and so unabashedly honest as Peter Hargitai’s novel Millie (iUniverse, $15.95). The love between an immigrant boy and an American girl touches the heart as they try to cling to each other, defying long-standing traditions of hate and the absurd Aryan notion of “purity of blood.” The stand they take against abuse in all its forms and guises verges on the heroic…

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