When renowned film director Péter Gárdos wrote the story, he intended it as a film script, but eventually he made it into a novel. “Fever at Dawn,” the love story of two Holocaust survivors―the author’s parents―has ever since sold in more than 20 territories.

Weöres' poems came out in English a trifle too late. I wish it would have been otherwise, for in that year Weöres was one of the strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize which kept eluding Hungarians until Imre Kertész received it some years later.

Gabor G Gyukics is a poet who migrates through countries and languages. His poetry was shaped by the traditions of American beat and jazz poets, during the one and half decades spent as a political refugee living in America.

"that day, my life was broken into two, divided into two, perhaps like everyone else’s who was a man at that time... Safety and tranquility disappeared from the world; these were the first to disappear...