George Szirtes [pronounced:Sirtesh] (born 1948) is a Hungarian-born poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life. Wikipedia
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George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest and came to England as a refugee following the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. He trained as a painter in Leeds and London, and is the author of several collections of poetry, his first being The Iron Clouds (1975) www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0a4782...
"Hungarian Roots, English Traditions" George Szirtes on Becoming an English Poet G eorge Szirtes, born in Budapest in 1948, left Hungary with his family as a child in 1956 and settled in England. www.hungarianquarterly.com/no164/15.html
Born in Budapest in 1948, George Szirtes came to England as a refugee, following the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. www.writersartists.net/gs2.htm#biography
