Peter Andrew Sherwood (born September 30, 1948, Budapest) is a British Professor of Linguistics, who was born in Hungary, and left the country with his family after 1956. He is a writer, editor, translator and lexicographer and as the Laszlo Birinyi Sr., Distinguished Professor in Hungarian Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.]
University of London 1976 (Diploma in Linguistics)
Professional experience
2008- Laszlo Birinyi Sr. Distinguished professor of Hungarian language and culture university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1972-2007 Lecturer (later: senior lecturer) In Hungarian, school of Slavonic and east European studies, University of London
(later: University College London)
Visiting lectureship
United Kingdom, University of Cambridge: visiting lecturer, 1999
Outside United Kingdom:
University of Szeged, Hungary: visiting lecturer, November-December 2006
University of Rome: visiting lecturer, November 1995
University of Debrecen, Hungary: visiting lecturer, March 1995
University of Budapest: visiting lecturer, January 1994
Honours
2007: Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
2003: G. F. Cushing Prize of the British-Hungarian Fellowship (London) for “outstanding contribution[s] to Hungarian linguistics, literary translation and for fostering appreciation of Hungarian culture in Great Britain”
2001: Pro Cultura Hungarica Hungarian State Prize for contributions to Anglo-Hungarian relations
1999: Prize of the Hungarian Milán Füst Foundation
Membership of professional organizations
2008-, Linguistic Society of America,
2008-, American Hungarian Educators’ Association,
1996-2007, British Hungarian Fellowship (London) Executive Committee member,
1975- International Association of Hungarian Studies, Budapest,
A Concise Introduction to Hungarian London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. 1996. 139 pp. SSEES Occasional Papers, 34. ISBN 0 903425 57 2
Review: M. Kontra in: Modern Nyelvoktatás (Budapest) VII. évf. 2-3 sz. 2001. September; 102-104.
The BUDALEX Guide to Hungarian [Distributed at the Third International Congress of the European Association for Lexicography, EURALEX, Budapest 4-9 September 1988]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 1988. 12 pp.
Dictionaries (co-)edited
Oxford angol-magyar szótár nyelvtanulóknak English-Hungarian Wordpower Dictionary. Janet Phillips (publisher’s editor), Peter Sherwood (senior editor). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. 768 pp. ISBN 0 19 431531 2.
New (revised) impression. 2003.
Third impression 2004.
Fourth (revised) impression 2006.
Awarded Outstanding Hungarian Dictionary prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the 4th Day of the Dictionary in Hungary, Budapest, 17 October 2007.
A Concise Hungarian-English Dictionary. Tamás Magay, László Országh (1907-1984), ?Contributing Editor” (de facto co-editor) Peter Sherwood. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. 1144 pp.
Reviews:
Eyvor Fogarty Professional Translator and Interpreter (London) No. 3 1990, 43-44;
R. J. W. Evans Slavonic and East European Review (London) Vol. 69 No. 4 (October 1991), 688;
Jeffrey Harlig Slavic and East European Journal (USA) Vol. 36 No. 3 (Fall 1992), 376-378.
Miklós Kontra Budapesti Könyvszemle (Budapest) Vol. 5 No. 3 (Autumn 1993), 377-380.
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László Péter, Martyn Rady, Peter Sherwood (eds) Lajos Kossuth sent word... Papers delivered on the occasion of the bicentenary of Kossuth’s birth. SSEES Occasional Papers, 56. London: Hungarian Cultural Centre and School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. 2003. 263 pp. ISBN 0-903425-67-X
Phrasal Verbs: Tanuljuk meg a 100 legfontosabbat! The 100 most important phrasal verbs of English for Hungarian students. Janet Phillips (publisher’s editor), Peter Sherwood (senior editor). Oxford.: Oxford University Press. 2003. 122 pp. ISBN 0 19 431608 4
'Living through something: notes on the work of Imre Kertész' in: Ritchie Robertson, Joseph Sherman (eds) The Yiddish Presence in European Literature: Inspiration and Interaction. Proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth International Mendel Friedman Conference. Legenda Studies in Yiddish, 5. European Humanities Research Centre. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2005. 108-116. ISBN 190 0075 5831
‘The label pre-socialist in Hungarian lexicography of the 1950s’ in: R. B. Pynsent (ed) The Phoney Peace. Power and Culture in Central Europe 1945-1949. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies/University College London. SSEES Occasional Papers, 46. 2000. 406-442. ISBN 0-903425-01-7
“A nation may be said to live in its language”: some socio-historical perspectives on attitudes to Hungarian’ in: Robert B. Pynsent (ed) The Literature of Nationalism. Essays on East European Identity, London: SSEES/Macmillan. 1996. 27-39. ISBN (UK ED) 0-333-66682-8
‘Hungarian’ in: A. J. Walford and J. E. O. Screen (eds) A guide to foreign language courses and dictionaries, third edition revised and enlarged. London: The Library Association. 1977. 260-263.
‘Egy Márai-regény fordításának nyelvészeti problémái. [The German and English translations of Sándor Márai’s novel A gyertyák csonkig égnek: Die Glut and Embers]’ Hungarológiai Évkönyv 2008. IX. évfolyam. Pécs: PTE BTK. 2008. 124-134. ISSN 1585-9673
