Mihály András Beke

Since 2014, he is the First Consul of the Consulate of Hungary in Berehovo. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Deputy Director of the National Strategic Research Institute. From 2003 to 2008 he was Director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Bucharest. From 2011 to 2013 Hungarian Commissioner of the Visegrad Fund. From 2004 to 2006 he was the founding president of the documentary film festival Film.dok, from 1994 to 2012 he was editor-reporter (Panorama) and editor-in-chief (Drama and Literature Editorial Office) of MTV, from 1990 to 1995 he was editor-reporter of (Heti)Magyarország. Between 1985 and 1989, he was editor of the weekly newspaper Köznevelés. Between 1980 and 1984, he was a primary school teacher in Sepsis.

Membership:

• Hungarian Writers’ Association (founding member of the Foreign Affairs MFA);
• Hungarian PEN club; EMIL; MÚRE;
• 1985-88, member of the JAK Presidency; leader of the Mihály literary translation camp;
• 1976-1980: Hungarian editor-in-chief of Echinox (Kvár);
• President of the Gaál-Gábor Literary Circle (Kvár).

Recognitions:

• Prize of the Madách Competition of Palócföld (essay category) (1988);
• Romanian Order of Cultural Merit, Grand Cross (2004);
• Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary (2021).

Its volumes:

• There is no place for you (Magyar Napló, Bp.2020);
• Huns in Europe, Reflections on Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy (Magyar Múzsa, Kecskemét, 2010.);
• The Age of Illusions, Transylvania (Széphalom, Bp. 1994);
  

Translations:

• A. Minc: The Continent of Chaos (New Middle Ages) (Holnap, Bp., 2012);
• W.Martens: One and the other Europe, (Püski, Bp. 1996.);
• Paul Drumaru: Dress Rehearsal (Europa, Bp. 1989)

Editing:

• Tower of Babel, Echinox anthology, Kriterion, Bucharest, 1983;
• Attila József 100, Poems/Poezii, Bilingual bibliophile edition, Bucharest, 2005 (editor in charge)