(American-born Kathleen Mátrai Keller, caught between two ...)
American-born Kathleen Mátrai Keller, caught between two cultures, two continents, and two loves, faces the increasingly common dilemma of our modern world: "Where is one's real home?" The novel brilliantly captures the challenge of growing up in two different worlds: Hungarian and American. The inability to feel totally at home in either environment, the loneliness of being without relatives in America, and the deeply-felt isolation of leading a marginal existence within the boundaries of two cultures are the main themes of the novel. A perfect book to appear on the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution!
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Professor of English author Adjunct Professor
Várdy is the recipient of:
Hungary’s “Berzsenyi-Prize” (1992)
Árpád Academy’s “Gold Medal” (1998)
Rákóczi Foundation’s “Pro Libertate Award” (2005)
Gold Medal of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee (2006)
Honorary Doctorate from King Louis the Great University (2007). János Angi and Tibor Glant of the University of Debrecen in Hungary.
(American-born Kathleen Mátrai Keller, caught between two ...)
She is an invited member of the International PEN (1985), and a Plenary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004). She is an active member of the American Hungarian Educators’ Association (since 1975), as well as of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Western Pennsylvania that she co-founded in 1972.
