SZILÁRD BIERNACZKY CSc, retired associate professor, music and ethnographic researcher, Africanist, book publisher, poet, and translator. His awards include the Károly Kós Prize and the Iroko Lifetime Achievement Award. His main research areas are Hungarian, Italian, and African literature, musica and oral traditions. Dr Biernaczky is the author and editor of twelve volumes, approximately two hundred studies, hundreds of lexicon entries and book reviews.