George Gomori (writer)

George Gomori (Hungarian: Gömöri György; born 3 April 1934) is a Hungarian-born poet, writer and academic.

[4] In May 2017 he was appointed as Senior Research Associate of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

With Clive Wilmer he has translated two books of poems by Miklós Radnóti (1979, 2003), two collections by György Petri (1991, 1999, the second collection shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize) and co-edited with George Szirtes a representative anthology of modern Hungarian poetry, The Colonnade of Teeth (Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle, 1996).

Gömöri is a regular contributor to the British press (The Guardian, The Independent) as well as to the American bimonthly World Literature Today.

For over three decades he has been on the Editorial Board of the American quarterly Books Abroad and its continuation World Literature Today.

His latest poetry collection in English, Polishing October: New and Selected Poems (Shoestring Press) was recently reviewed in World Literature Today.

He has two daughters from his first marriage, Beata and Anna, and with his second wife Mari has brought up three sons, Daniel, Peter and Ben.