The author, Zoltan BOSZORMENYI, was born in 1951 in the Hungarian community of Arad in Transylvania, and studied for seven years at the Ballet School in Cluj. He began his writing career in the Iron Curtain days of Eastern Europe, publishing in Transylvania two books of Hungarian-language poetry, the second of which (considered politically unacceptable) resulted in his arrest and ... Read moreinterrogation by Romanian security officers. He fled to the West, through Yugoslavia, spent seven months at Traiskirchen Refugee Camp in Austria, then was admitted to Canada, where he learned English and graduated from York University in Toronto. After returning to Eastern Europe in the 1990s, he became a successful industrialist, setting up Romania's most modern lighting company. He retired from industry to return to writing, and is editor-in-chief of a Hungarian-language daily and monthly journal based in Arad and Budapest. He is married, and has two daughters. Show Less