Edit Tasnádi

Edit Tasnádi (Budapest, 1942.) turkologist, literary translator.

From 1967 he worked as a journalist-colleague at the Turkish-language broadcast of Hungarian Radio, from 1993 he was a lecturer at the Department of Hungarian Studies at the University of Ankara for five years, and then at the Archive of Hungarian Radio until 2005.

Since 2005, he has been an occasional assistant professor at the Turkish Department of ELTE. He is a founding member of the Hungarian-Turkish Friendship Society, and is currently its vice-president.

Co-author of the Hungarian-Turkish and the Turkish-Hungarian dictionaries.

He is the author of numerous articles in Hungarian and Turkish, and a conference speaker in the field of Hungarian-Turkish linguistic, literary, ethnographic and historical relations. He has translated into Turkish the letters of Mikes from Turkey, the poems of Bálint Balassi, János Arany, Petőfi, etc.

Among others, he has been awarded the Literary Translator of the Week of the Day, the Hungarian Silver and Gold Cross of Merit; in Turkey, the Nasreddin Hoxha Grand Prize and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Turkish Ministry of Culture.