Author Biography
Dr J was born Elfer Istvin Budapest, Hungary, in 1943 and attended school in that city. He has a number of university degrees including the equivalent of a PhD.His career has been in the field of the arts and literature, working, inter alia, as a dramatic director, (dramaturg, ) in Budapests Thalia theatre as well as positions in the Hungarian Library of Pedagogics and the Hungarian Academy of Science.In addition to a number of documentaries and other productions and publications he is the author of three dramatic plays, a comedy, a screenplay for a movie and two novels, one of which, Csobban(Ripples of Time) gained him the prestigious Wallenberg prize. Csobbans his first work translated into Englis
