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Marek Vadas Author

Marek Vadas is an advisor to the king of Nyenjei, a small kingdom in Cameroon, and the author of several books, including the short story collections Black on Black, A Bad Neighborhood, and Six Foreigners. Julia Sherwood is a translator of Slovak, Czech, Polish, Russian, and German into English. She is editor-at-large for Slovakia for Asymptote, cocurates the website SlovakLiterature.com and is the editor of Seagull Books’ Slovak List. Peter Sherwood is a translator and scholar who served as the László Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His translations from Hungarian include collections of essays by Béla Hamvas and Antal Szerb, and several novels, such as Ádám Bodor’s The Birds of Verhovina.