SEEfest Literary Salon 2023
Poetry From Behind the Iron Curtain
Györgi Petri’s Poems performed by Radnóti Miklós Theatre, Budapest/Hungary
András Pál, actor
Tamás Rozs, cellist
Monday, April 24, 2023, 7pm
MiMoDa Dance Studio
5774 W Pico Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Györgi Petri (1943-2000), born to a multi-ethnic family in Budapest, was a leading
Hungarian poet, writer, and translator. Petri studied Hungarian literature and
philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University. From 1975 to 1988 his works were
banned; his poetry appeared only in Samizdat and abroad. Between 1981 and 1989
he was the editor of the Samizdat newspaper Beszélő. After the regime change, he
became a member of the editorial board of the cultural monthly Holmi. He was one of
the founders of the Digital Literary Academy.
SEEfest program and activities are supported, in part, by ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies , the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their past and current support of our programs. The Dutch film program is supported by Dutch Culture USA of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.