Szilárd Biernaczky

Szilárd Biernaczky

SZILÁRD BIERNACZKY CSc, retired associate professor, music and ethnographic researcher, Africanist, book publisher, poet, and translator. His awards include the Károly Kós Prize and the Iroko Lifetime Achievement Award. His main research areas are Hungarian, Italian, and African literature, musica and oral traditions. Dr Biernaczky is the author and editor of twelve volumes, approximately two hundred studies, hundreds of lexicon entries and book reviews.

LÁSZLÓ MAGYAR—UNTOLD STORIES OF A HUNGARIAN EXPLORER
BORN TWO HUND

Part II MAGYAR’S RECEPTION IN HUNGARY AND ABROAD Owing to his Hungarian patriotism, and—having been an illegitimate child— his family circumstances and upbringing (he wanted to prove himself to his father), he insisted on publishing his books and other writings in Hungarian, despite offers from Portugal and Britain. Consequently, although