Győző Ferencz#
| Membership Number: | 3314 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Executive President, Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts
- 2004 Member, Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts
- 2006 - 2010 Head of Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- 1993 Associate Professor, Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- 1998 - 2002 Széchenyi Professorial Fellowship
- 1998 - 2009 Literary critic at Hungarian daily paper Népszabadság [Freedom of People]]
- 1993 - 2000 Poetry Editor, Nagyvilág (Great World) Magazine of World Literature, Budapest
- 1993 - 1998 Course Lecturer and Tutor, Láthatatlan Kollégium (Invisible College), Budapest
- 1995 - 1996 Fulbright Scholarship (10 months), Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A. (Research fellow)
- 1991 Fulbright Scholarship (5 months), Oberlin College, Ohio, U.S.A. (Research fellow)
- 1982 - 1993 Literary Editor, Európa Publishers, Budapest
- 1983 - 1993 Part-Time Lecturer, Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- 1989 - 1991 Literary Editor, Újhold (New Moon) Bi-yearly Literary Anthology, Budapest
- 1988 - 1992 Hungarian correspondent of international poetry magazine "Phi", published in Leuven, Belgium,
- 1980 - 1993 Member of Prosody Research Team at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1978 - 1982 Teacher of Hungarian Language and Literature and English Language, Jedlik Ányos Secondary School, Budapest
Fields of Scholarship
- 20th century and contemporary Anglo-Irish poetry
- Poetry, drama and prose of William Butler Yeats
- 20th century and contemporary English and American poetry
- Poetry of Wallace Stevens
- 17th century English poetry
- Poetry of John Donne
- 20th century and contemporary Hungarian poetry
- Poetry of Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944)
- Poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922-1991)
- Hungarian and English metrics
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - International Poetry Prize at European Poetical Tournament, Maribor, Slovenia
- 2010 - Radnóti Prize for Poetry
- 2010 - Pro Urbe Budapest Prize for Achievement
- 2009 - Miklós Radnóti Anti-Racism Prize
- 2006 - Artisjus Literary Foundation Grand Prize for "The Life and Poetry of Miklós Radnóti"
- 2006 - Palladium Prize for "The Life and Poetry of Miklós Radnóti"
- 2001 - Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae Foundation Nemes Nagy Ágnes Prize for Poetry and Essays
- 2000 - József Attila Prize for Poetry and Essays
- 1990 - The Hungarian Writers' Association Forintos Prize for Poetry Translation
- 1987 - Robert Graves Prize for Poetry
