Peter

I am a qualified teacher of Hungarian Language and Literature. I have a Master`s Degree in Hungarian and a BA in Theology. My expertise is modern Hungarian literature and culture and contemporary theology.

I grew up in Hungary where I attended the Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma and I was inspired by excellent teachers and decided to continue my studies at university level for a degree in Hungarian Language and Literature. I earned a Master’s Degree in Hungarian Language and Literature at University of Miskolc and became a Qualified Teacher of Hungarian for Secondary Schools. Soon after, I started my Doctoral Studies and was a PhD Candidate at University of Miskolc where I had focused on researching Janos Pilinszky’s poetry.

I also hold Qualified Teacher Status in the UK and have done Bibliodrama training in Budapest – Bibliodrama as a Way of Intercultural Learning for Adults – Lifelong Learning Programme (Grundtvig Fund). This was part of a international initiative across five countries (Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Poland, Turkey) and took him to conferences and workshops in Budapest, Krakow, Reykjavik and Istanbul.

Availability: Monday to Friday 4-8 pm, Saturday 9 am - 4 pm.

Willing to travel: 30 miles

Experience: After my university studies, I became a teacher of Hungarian Language and Literature at Klotildligeti Ward Maria Secondary School in Piliscsaba, Hungary. In the past 3 years I have been teaching at different IB International Schools in London and Surrey, working both with primary school students in the PYP and older IB Diploma students studying IB Hungarian at Higher Level.
As an IB Educator, I have experience supervising Extended Essays – including Existentialism in Miklos Meszoly’s prose.

For over 10 years I have also worked as a professional translator. I did the literary translation of one of Britain’s leading historical fiction authors, Norah Lofts’ How far to Bethlehem? , a novel that I translated from English into Hungarian, published by Szent Istvan Tarsulat, Budapest, 2008) I am also the author of of several literary essays on modern Hungarian literature published in prominent literary journals. (On the works of Janos Pilinszky, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Zsuzsa Beney, Imre Kertesz, Peter Esterhazy.)