Len Rix


Len Rix is a translator of Hungarian literature into English, noted for his translations of Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend and of Magda Szabó's The Door and Katalin Street.

Early Life and Education

Len Rix was born in Zimbabwe in 1942, where he studied English, French and Latin at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In 1963 he won a Commonwealth Scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he read English. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and subsequently as a teacher of English at Manchester Grammar School, before retiring in 2005 to live in Cambridge.

Translations

Len Rix's first published translation from Hungarian was of Tamás Kabdebó's Minden idők , but he is best known for his renderings of Antal Szerb, especially Journey by Moonlight, and of Magda Szabó's The Door and Katalin Street.

Awards and honors

The Door, translation used for English version of 2012 film The Door by István Szabó, starring Helen Mirren.