Biography in English

Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay is a Hungarian writer, translator and editor. Studied philosophy at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., then modern languages and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Worked as Spanish and French translator for the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women, the World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.. Then worked as a free-lance in Hungary, for among others, the New Hungarian Quarterly, and Corvina [1977-79]. Back again in Washington, D.C., free-lanced again for, among others, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and State Department.

Taught Hungarian to American diplomats at the Foreign Service Institute (1980-1985). Moved to Brussels where, from 1985 to 2006, worked as free-lance translator, writer, and editor. Regular music critic for the Brussels English-language weekly, The Bulletin, and wrote music reviews for Opera News, Musical America, and the London-based musical journal, Strictly Off the Record (1989-1995). Editor of

The Berlioz Society Bulletin (1994-2006).

Translated: Tibor Déry, The Circus (Hungarian Short Stories, ed. Pál Várnai, Toronto, 1983); Dezső Legány, Ferenc Liszt and His Country (Budapest, 1992); Hector Berlioz, The Art of Music and Other Essays (A travers chants) (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1994); István Eörsi, On the Road to Debrecen with Ginsberg and Co. (Transit, 1998); Sándor Kányádi, A Világlátott Egérke [The Little Globe-Trotting Mouse] (Holnap Edition, Budapest, 1999); Sándor Kányádi, Talpas Történetek [Ambrus the Bear] (ibid. Budapest, 2004); Sándor Kányádi, Virágon-Vett Vitéz [A Knight for a Flower] (Ibid. Budapest, 2006); Menyhért Lakatos, extract from Füstös Képek [Images in Smoke] in Oriel, poems and narratives, (Black Sandal, London, 2009); complete Images in Smoke awaiting publication; in progress, Hantó Zsuzsa, Kitiltott Családok [The Hungarian Gulag], (Magyar Ház, Budapest 2009).

Associations: PEN International (Secretary of PEN Writers for Peace Committee), American Literary Translator’s Association, Berlioz Society, Sándor Veress Társaság [Society], American Musicological Society, Mihály Zichy Foundation.