Description
Marta Siklos came from a Hungarian-Jewish family and was a secondary school English teacher and translator of English-language literature. Born in 1952, Siklos grew up in Budapest and Kecskemét. As a teenager, she visited family in England and later received both teacher training and a teaching job in the United States. She experienced the political changes in Hungary as a gradual relaxation but was still surprised by their extent. In this interview, she discusses her English teaching and being a translator under communism; the euphoria after the Communist collapse and the subsequent divisiveness that developed in Hungary; her travels; as well as many of the modern political and social problems in Hungary.