Professor Thomas Kabdebo

Dr Thomas Kabdebo is the author of more than forty books, the translator of a further forty books, and has received numerous literary and other awards - including the Hungarian Order of Merit, the Peterfy Life Achievement Award, the Fust Grand Prix for translation, and the International Poetry Prize. Born in Budapest in 1934, he escaped to the West from his native Hungary after participation in the 1956 Revolution. He has lived in Britain (where he directed the University Library of Westminster...See more

Dr Thomas Kabdebo is the author of more than forty books, the translator of a further forty books, and has received numerous literary and other awards - including the Hungarian Order of Merit, the Peterfy Life Achievement Award, the Fust Grand Prix for translation, and the International Poetry Prize. Born in Budapest in 1934, he escaped to the West from his native Hungary after participation in the 1956 Revolution. He has lived in Britain (where he directed the University Library of Westminster), in Guyana (where he directed the University Library of Georgetown), and finally settled in Ireland, where he became Director of Maynooth University Library. He now lives in Newcastle, County Dublin. ' - As a youngster he lived through two regime changes in Hungary, plus an imprisonment, and a revolution, and the loss of his first home. - '[ - Arpad Goncz, President of Hungary 1990-2000]. ' - For some years, Thomas Kabdebo was familiar to many as the librarian at Maynooth College. That was a settled state of life compared with his earlier years as recounted in this autobiography.'[ - Peter Costello, THE IRISH CATHOLIC JOURNAL]. See less