János Szávai (1940) has taught French and Comparative Literature at ELTE since 1975. Visiting Professor at the University Paris III between 1982 and 1985. Ambassador of Hungary in Paris from 1990 to 1994. Professor at the University Paris IV-Sorbonne 1994–2005. Published eleven books: The Autobiography (Budapest, Akadémiai); Introduction a la littérature hongroise (Jean Maisonneuve, Paris); La Hongrie (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris). Translated into Dutch, Japanese, Bulgarian and Romanian, etc.