The Closing of the CEU: the Closing of Hungary

We are deeply concerned about the passing of the disgraceful law intended to shut the Central European University in Budapest.

The law, intended for this one specific purpose, is the latest step taken by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to close out democratic institutions in the country, including press, media and NGOs.

Please note we do not say opposition institutions since the CEU is in no way a political opponent of the government. It is simply an independent university.

On 10th April, the president of the country, János Áder, signed the law and, that night, for the second night running students were out in the streets protesting in their thousands and tens of thousands. Those students are the last bastion of hope against the establishment of an authoritarian state in Hungary.

If that should happen it would be a serious blot on the EU's conscience to have permitted this act of the Orbán government to pass without response. It reduces Europe. It weakens it. It takes it one step further to the edge of disintegration.

It is vital to act quickly. We ask for a period of intensive fact-finding into the legality of the Hungarian government’s law in this specific instance and its consequences for freedom of education, and for a process of mediation, bringing the parties together around the principle of European rule of law.

George Szirtes, poet and translator

Ottilie Mulzet, translator

W. N. Herbert, Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, FRSL

John Sears, Independent Scholar and Curator
Colm Toibin, writer

Toby Litt, novelist

Carolyn Forché, poet, professor, Georgetown University

Christopher Reid, poet, London
Sean O'Brien, poet
Michael Nyman, composer

Nicholas Lezard, critic, London
Rosie Goldsmith, journalist, presenter, director European Literature Network

Meg Rosoff, writer, UK
Sarah Churchwell, critic and author
Professor Menna Elfyn, poet 
Daniel Hahn, translator

Richard Smyth, writer, UK
Terry Glavin, columnist, National Post and Ottawa Citizen

Pascale Petit, poet, Cornwall, UK
Jacob Polley, poet
Tiffany Atkinson, poet, UK
Bill Swainson, freelance editor and literary consultant
Annie Freud, poet, artist, teacher
Choman Hardi, writer, Kurdistan
Mangaleh Dabral, Hindi poet, India
Ludwig Steinherr, poet, Germany
Alex Preston, writer, Senior Lecturer, University of Kent
Hélène Cardona, poet and actor, US, France, Spain
Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, writer, Mexico City, Mexico

Liam Carson, literary festival director, Ireland

Professor Robert Archambeau, literary critic

Amal Chatterjee, Writer, Amsterdam & Oxford

Claire Ramsey, Professor Emeritus, University of California

Michael Augustin, poet & broadcaster, Bremen, Germany
James Hopkin, writer, Europe.

Koyamparambath Satchidanandan, poet and academic, India

Fionnbharr Ó Duinnín translator / communication trainer, Budapest

Nicola Murphy, School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway.

Ophelia Benson, writer
Natalie d'Arbeloff, artist and writer, London

Selina Guinness, writer and lecturer
Lee Yew Leung, editor,-in-chief, Asymptote journal

András Gerevich, poet, Hungary
Ana Silvera, composer
Alison Croggon, writer and critic, Australia

Margo Berdeshevsky, poet, USA

Prof Riri Sylvia Manor, writer and Professor of Neuro-opthalmology, M.D. Sackler University

András Laszlo, cancer researcher, USA

Tom Bowden, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, College of Engineering

Eric Henze, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London

Kit Kelen, Professor of English, University of Macau, China

Annemarie Mullan  Queens, Belfast, New York University
Penelope Shuttle, poet, Cornwall, UK

Kevin Jackson, writer, United Kingdom

Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London

Moniza Alvi, poet and tutor, Norfolk
Hannah Lowe, poet and lecturer

Julian Evans. Writer, Bristol
Linda How, teacher, London

Alica Kavounas, writer
Dr Rimas Uzgiris, poet, translator, lecturer
Katherine Groves
Veronika Krasnova, UEA
Priya Sarukkai Chabria, poet, writer, translator, India
Andrea Holland, poet and tutor UEA
Dr Alexandra Loske, art historian and eeditor, University of Sussex, UK
Maria Koliopoulou (Magda Kapa), writer, teacher, photographer, Greece and Germany

Mark Robson, writer and academic, Professor of English and Theatre Studies, University of Dundee

Sergiusz Bober, Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow, Poland

Professor Janet Montefiore, University of Kent

Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London

Catherine Czerkawska, novelist and playwright, Scotland

Tsead Bruinja. Poet, Netherlands

Tom Deveson, MA (Cambridge) Teacher at London Centre for Young Musicians

Susan Walker MA Corporate Governance Kingston University and MFA University of the Arts London

Gregory Woods,  Professor Emeritus, Nottingham Trent University.

Charles Lambert Università di Roma Tre
Dr Antony Shuttleworth
Lesley Burt, Southampton Solent University

Bette Adriaanse, writer, Netherlands

Robbie Travers, University of Edinburgh

Peter W Houlihan . PhD, faculty UMass Amherst
Myra Schneider, poet

Kees Klock, historian, poet, translator, Netherlands.

Gregory Dowling, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Brian Johnstone, Hon President, StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry Festival.

Dr Omar Al-Kayat, Neurologist and writer
Terese Coe, poet, professor, New York

Erika Mihálycsa  PhD, lecturer in 20th c British literature, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj/Kolozsvár, translator.

Jacqueline Fear-Segal Professor of American and Indigenous Histories, UEA

Sasha Dugdale, editor MPT, UK

Victoria Musgrave, Educationalist. Exec Head Abbots Bromley School and International College

Thomas Karshan, UEA
Linda Ashok, poet, India
Colin Ventura, composer, UK
Benjamin Ramm OD/ BBC
Christian Lux, publisher and translator, Wiesbaden, Germany
Christo James, author, UK
Kerry Shawn Keys, poet, Vilnius, Lithuania

James Perrin, writer, Hon Fellow of Bangor University

Chris Gribble, CEO Writers’ Centre Norwich
Danuta Kean, journalist, Tunbridge Wells

Helen Ivory, poet and artist
Carol Watts, poet
Rachel Appleby, ELTE university, Budapest

Steven Robert Carlson, writer, California

Judi Sutherland, PhD, MBA, writer and scientist

Keiron Pim, writer, Norwich, UK

Stuart A Paterson, poet, Scotland
Jacalyn McNamara, artist, writer, educator
Michael T. Young

Michael Dickel, writer and lecturer , US and Israel

Agnes Marton, poet and editor

Mihaela Ghita, translator, Romania
Anna Robinson, poet and senior lecturer, University of East London

Rosemary Grant, poetry editor, UK

Guy Dammann, Uppsala University, Sweden

Howard Curtis, Literary Translator

Katherine Gregor, Literary Translator

Dr Geraldine Green, poet, editor

Peter Eustace, translator and poet, Italu

Martin Figura, writer
Philip Alcabes, Professor, unter College, New York City

Pasco-Q Kevlin. Director NAC
Barbara Epler, editor, publisher, New Directions

Catharina Blaauwendraad, poet, translator, teacher, Austria

Nessa O’Mahony, poet, Ireland

Mary Ann McCarra, poet, Peekskillm NY, US

Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator
Georgina El-Nagashi, librarian, human rights activist, former Green politician, Vienna

Sam Ruddock, programme manager, Writers’ Centre Norwich

Judith Palmer, Director, The Poetry Society

Daniel Szabo, English teacher, France
Zoe Brigley Thompson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University, US

Nick Owen, LSE, Oxford, Reading, Oxford School of Psychotherapy

Nicki Heinen, writer, London
John Henshaw, artist

Hugh McFadden, poet & journalist

Ralph Dumain, independent scholar

Professor Said Leghild
Rose Anderson, poet, Leeds, UK
Fran Isherwood, poet, performer and teacher.

Stephen Pogany, Emeritus Professor, Warwick University

Joan Hewitt, poet, Tynemouth
Annie Wilson, freelance writer, journalist
Gordon Kerr, Scottish writer

Kriszta Szendroi, UCL

Edward Mycue, poet, San Francisco, USA

Mark Husmann, Northumbria University
Peter M Baroth, poet and novelist, US

Lou Robson, MA student, Birmingham City University

Richard Soloway, retired lecturer

Tyler Massey, songwriter, UK

Pauline Fayne, poet, Ireland

Bharat Ravikumar, writer, India

Mario Domínguez Parra, translator, poet

Jacqui Rowe, writer and educator UK

Max Wallis, poet and writer

Diana Hilliard, educationalist
Ravi Shankar, poet, USA
Alexander Gordon Smith

Karen Davies

John A A Logan writer, Scotland

Eva Szilagyi

Paul Hawkins, poet and text artist, Bristol

Jacqueline Saphra, poet

Ray Fisher

Steve Vowles

Fran Brearton 

Francoise Harvey

Diana Becker

Harry Smart, writer

Hugh McFadden

Pete Jordan
Adam S J Foulds, writer

Rosemary Dun

Laura Noszlopy, PhD
Ian Stasmore, artist, UK

Carla Palmieri, translator, Italy
Jane Draycott, poet and translator, UK

Karen J McDonnell, writer

Stacy Dianne Kennedy

Jeannie Wells
Dominic Gill, journalist, London

David Swann

James W Wood, poet and novelist

Dr Karima Brooke, Oxford, UK

Dan Wyke, MA, MBACP

Dr Irene Lampert, MRCPsych, MA Norwich

Christina Dithmar

Esther Gómez-Sierra, Lic Fil Hisp (Madrid Complutense), PhD (Manchester).

Kirk Parsons, UK writer and journalist...

Raphael Urweider, poet, Switzerland

Lydia Macpherson MA Hons Oxon, MA London

Gábor Gyukics, poet

Inez Baranay, PhD, writer

Bernice Reynolds, B.Ed

Anne Beer, PhD

James Harrold
Maria McManus, poet, Ireland

Cathy Bryant, poet, EU citizen

Claudia Daventry MA Hons Oxon, MLitt, (EU citizen, poet, teacher, linguist)

Jenny Yancey

Catherine Ann Cullen, writer, Ireland

Ilya Anski

Tim Gardiner PhD (Essex), FBNA

Jacob Ziguras, poet, philosopher, PhD

Penelope Kease

Michael Iossel, writer / professor, US/Canada

Jez Noond

Deborah Alma
Alison Armstrong, writer, teacher, musician, painter

Jonathan Hurley

Lena Clamp

Paul Vaughan (MA, Oxon)

Angela Topping, poet

Penny Sharman

Kálmán Faragó, Budapest

Dr Richard Slade, artist

Dave Garbutt,

Brett Hardman

Cristina Newton, writer and educator, UK

Juno Gemes

Claire Kidman
Julia Lock,MA Oxon, Budapest

Hanne Busck-Nielsen

Rachel Winter

Ruth Valentine, writer

Catherine M Brennan, writer and teacher

Jude Cowan-Montague, poet/artist, Resonance FM

Leslie Donovan, BSc, BEd, MA

Roberta Burnett, Arizona

Josephine Dickinson MA Oxon, LRAM, poet

Bernard Hurley MA MSc DPhil.

Anne Mullane ( retired Reader Development Manager)

Nancy Mattson, Canadian writer living in London, England.

Robert Mason, illustrator and writer

Hugh Waterhouse, poet, historian, storyteller

Maria Jastrzebska writer

Tim Collard, retired British diplomat.

Grant Tarbard, writer

Mei Lim artist

Lindy Barbour (B.A. Hons. Oxon) University of Edinburgh

Laura Sgarioto, translator, Budapest.

Frederika Randall  US/EU dual citizen, translator, Rome

Beatrice O’Malley, BSc, PPharm

Dr Catherine Nichols, Leeds university, UK.

Mark Carlisle
Natalia Zagorska-Thomas, artist and curator

Joanne Limburg, poet

Ranbir Singh Sidhu, writer

Reuben Woolley
Brian Flynn, writer, Washington DC

Paola Grenier, PhD Budapest

Susan Castillo

Vanessa Gebbie, writer

Josephine Corcoran, writer, Wiltshire, UK

Nigel Patrick Forde, poet and playwright
Carmelo Militano, poet, teacher, broadcaster

Harry Owen, poet, S Africa

Ruth Irwin, Secondary school, English teacher, London

Jim Lindop, retired businessman

Catherine Slusar Buck, writer ‘Being Human’ USA

Umit Singh Dhuga, publisher and managing editor, The Battersea Review

Victoria Herring, English language teacher

Andrew McDonnell, University Centre, Peterborough

Meirion Jordan, writer and editor
Bethany W Pope, poet, US and UK

Ruth Mullen, writer and editor

Professor Oz Hardwick, poet and academic

Marc R Sherland, President of the Scottish Association of Writers

Sue Millard, writer, singer, webmaster

Györgyi Voros, PhD, Senior Instructor, Visginia Tech University, poet

Isadora Papadrakis, Art Historian, Rome

Rob A. Mackenzie, poet, reviews editor at Magma Poetry magazine

Karen Redman, journalist

Mab Jones, writer, tutor at Cardiff University

Balázs Szendroi, Oxford
Simon Hall, Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds

Helen Calcutt, writer and poet

Bori Németh, Egyptologist, Budapest

Martin Reed, author, London

David Savill, Novelist, University of Salford

C. Stene Duckworth, Publisher, Writer, Entrepreneur, United States

Cathy Dreyer, University of South Wales

Fiona Pitt-Kethley, writer.

Chrissie Gittins, pet, writer, playwright

Simon Williams, poet, technical journalist

Balint Bethlenfalvy

Stephen Payne, Professor of Human-Centric Systems, University of Bath

Sai Leighild, Professor, poet, beekeeper
Wendy McMahon, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, UEA

Kate Birch, publisher

John Freeman, writer and critic

Richard Skinner, novelist, Director of Fiction, Faber Academy

Éanann Mac Donnchadha, translator, Barcelona

Barbara Smith, writer and teacher

Alessandra Bava, translator and poet, Rome, Italy

James Milner, novelist, Creative Writing MFA Director, Kingston University

Ron Carey, poet
Shanta Acharya, poet, academic

Rosemary Major, BA Hons (Open) nurse, Oxford

Myrto Gondicas, translator, poet

Pam Bridgeman M Phil retired teacher

Rachel Rooney, teacher and poet

Edward Grdner, psychotherapist
Anthony Cox, Senior Lecturer in Clinjcal Pharmacy, U of Birmingham

Sally Evans, poet, writer and bookseller

Aline P’nina Tayar, conference interpreter and author

Tim Dooley, poet, visiting lecturer, University of Westminster

Paul Olchváry, translator and publisher

Emma Lee, poet, Leicester, UK

James McGrath, author and lecturer, Leeds

Helen Szirtes, writer and editor

Josie Crescent-Moon, writer

Fiona Larkin, poet, London
Bina Sarkar Ellis, editor, publisher International Gallerie

Steven Waling, poet, reviewer

Sandy Solomon, writer

Adam Horovitz, poet, UK

Nigel Parke, book dealer

Eleanor Hooker, poet, Ireland
Isobel Dixon, poet, literary agent

Georgia Varjas, speaker, writer

Donald Campbell, Retired social worker and social work teacher

Richard Copeland poet

Amaia Gabantxo, literary translator

Pippa Little, Royal Literary Fund Fellow, poet

Donald Gardner, poet and translator

Robin Buckallew

Eryl Shields artist, writer

Roland Nilsson

Rachel Hore, writer, university tutor

Padrika Tarrant, writer

John Eliot, poet, Wales

Judith Buckrich, historian, Melbourne, Australia

Eszter Molnár, literary translator

Steve Foulger

Clive Stubbs, playwright
Katie Flook
Susan Greenberg
Bethany Rivers, poet
Kinga Fabó, poet, Budapest
David Grant, teacher, Glasgow, Scotland
David Alcock, architectural conservation
John Kay, teacher
Jody Porter, poet, poetry editor Morning Star
Bob Hopcraft, headteacher
Khadim Hussain, Sacred Alien Comix
Caroline Gilfillan, poet and fiction writer
Jill Townsend, writer
Clarissa Upchurch, artist
Neil McCarthy, poet, Austria
Véronique Martin, writer, France
Carla Palmieri, translator, Italy
Davide Trame, teacher
Gary Moon, community support organiser
Daniele Pantano, poet, Switzerland
Julia Webb, poet, poetry editor, Lighthouse Literary Journal
Sue Hubbard, poet, novelist, art critic, London
Tina Gharavi, filmmaker and academic
Richard Livermore, poet, magazine editor
Pamela Robertson-Pearce, fillamker, Northumberland, UK
Zachary Bos, editor, New England Review of Books
Lyn Moir, poet, translator
Johanna Boal, librarian, poet
Ann Leshy Wood, writer, musician
Sandra Reed, librarian, London
Rachel Winter, psychoanalytic psychotherapist
Caroline M Davies, poet, pensions adviser
Pru Kitching, poet
Elena Remigi, interpreter and translator
Pierre Ringwald, teacher, Helsinki
Stephen Oliver, poet / voice artist
Sam Gwyn
David Robertson, Professor of Public Policy, Liverpool (retired)
Sally-anne Lomas, television director / producer
Jack Little, poet
Michael Prince, artist, Nottingham
Duncan McGibbon, poet
David Swann, teacher and writer
Lee Prosser, poet
Michael Rought-Brooks, gardener
Janet Smith, scientist, academic
Professor Suzie Hanna
Judith Baumel, poet, Professor of English, Adelphi University, New York
Jonathan Taylor, senior lecturer, University of Leicester
Alexander Cigale, poet, translator
Debra Lynn Pughe, writer, Fine Art Museum of San Francisco
Anatoly Kudryavitsky, poet, novelist, translator, Ireland
Charles Hall, teacher
Paul Hellyer, Wellington, New Zealand, Hungarian citizen
Alan McCormick, writer, England
Dawn Oei, health practitioner
Bob Wittock, Warsaw, Poland
Naomi Sachs, actress and poet, London
Tanvir Bush, author and lecturer
A. F. Harrold, poet, author, performer
Margaret Royall, poet
Kevin Reid, artist
Desmond McGrath, editor
Wynn Wheldon, author
Jane Roberts, writer, Shropshire, UK
Martin O'Connor, poet
Rania Hafez, senior lecturer, London
Rajan Naidu, community worker, UK
Agnes Eperjesy, management consultant, UK, Hungarian citizen
Jane Ponsford, artist, UK
Liz Nugent, writer, Ireland
Kinga Fabó, poet, linguist, essayist
Stephen Barnard, Advaitin philosopher
William Harvey, art director, UK
Neil Fulwood, poet, Nottingham, UK
Martin Reed, writer and performer
Meena Kandasamy, poet, India
Dray Zera, performer, poet
Cerasu Ceceep, painter and sculptor, Indonesia
Michael Prince, artist
Liz Lacey, lecturer and writer, Liverpool
Sarah Atkinson, musician / educator, Istanbul / Toronto
Mary O'Donnell, poet and novelist, Galway University
Michael Langan, writer
Janet Davidson, editor, Northern Ireland
Linda Black, writer, editor, teacher, artist
Francis David Rafferty, performance poet, comedian
Pauline Rowe, writer and tutor, Liverpool
Peter Daniels, PhD candidate, Goldsmiths, London
Professor Diane DeBell
Andrea Scrima, artist and writer, Berlin / New York
Leigh Jones, researcher
Ildiko Melis, college teacher, Michigan, US
Susan Greenberg
Elizabeth MacDonald, Pisa University
Andrea Porter, teacher and poet, UK
Sophie Plowden, teacher and author, London
Sophia Bartleet,  writer and teacher
Eloise Miller, publisher, UK
Katrin Mäurich, painter, UK / Germany
Mark Roper, poet
Anna Dreda, bookseller, Wenlock Books, Shropshire
Paul Perry, writer, Ireland
Melanie Williams, writer, UK
Ellen Sokolow, architect, New York, USA
Sally Crabtree, writer
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, mathematician and poet, London
Domenico Iannaco, teacher, Italy
Maria Taylor, lecturer, Loughborough
Rosie Jackson, writer and lecturer, UK
Dr Nathalie Teitler, arts activist, London
Oliver Stanton, designer
Mari Alföldy, translator, Amsterdam
Alexandra Buechler, cultural manager, Aberystwyth, UK
Sandy Solomon, writer, Vanderbilt University
Olga Serebryanaya, journalist and literary translator, Prague
Kathryn MacGregor
Thomas Humphrey, gallery proprietor, Norwich
Peter Chaltas, entrepreneur, poet, Toronto
John Phillips
Elizabeth Macklin, writer and editor
Andrew Ervin, novelist and critic, Philadelphia, US
Stephen Morrissey, poet
Daniel Gustafsson, literary translator
Denni Turp, Disability Arts, Officer, Wales
Susan Young, journalist, UK
Keith Lander, software engineer and writer, UK
Dr Alyson Hallett, poet and Advisory Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund
Dr Gyorgyi Voros, poet, Senior Instructor, Virginia Tech  University, USA
Anthony diMatteo, poet
Dr Peter Ryley, University of Hull (retired)
Victoria Clegg
Karen Margolis, author and translator
Anne Cooper, writer, poet, educator
Márton Dornbach, visiting assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University
Selina St.Clair Mills, author MPhil Cantab
Katy Ewing, writer and artist, Scotland
John Holyer, avionics engineer
Lydia Towsey, poet and performer
Graham Mummery, poet and psychotherapist
Stephen Hyatt-Cross, nurse, UK
Irena Makarewicz, translator
Clare Allan, writer, lecturer, City University, London
Fiona Hanley, art director, graphic designer, illustrator
Frank Dullaghan, writer, poet, business consultant
Kitty Gifford, USA
Hannah Jane Walker, writer
Rebecca Byrkit, Clinical Professor, Creative Writing, ASO, poet
Peter Street, poet, tutor, writer
Miki Byrne, poet, writer, Gloucestershire
Briony Bax, editor Ambit Magazine
Trevor Joyce, poet, Cork,  Ireland
Aaron Deveson, academic, National Taiwan Normal University
Nadia Kingsley, publisher and poet
Maria C.McCarthy, writer, Kent.
Francoise Robin, INALCO, Paris
Sue Hardy-Dawson, poet and illustrator, UK
Katia Buffetrille, EPHE, Paris
Anne Pollert, sociologist, Leamington Spa
Sarah Wedderburn, poet and freelance copywriter
David Ian Ross
Rowyda Amin, poet
David Smith, literary agent, London and Kent
Danica Ogjenovic, weiter and gallery co-ordinator, UK
Oxana Yakimenko, translator, university lecturer, St Petersburg, Russia
Kathy Page, writer and professor at Vancouver State University
Mike Gallagher, poet, Ireland
Patricia Mullin, author, tutor, mentor
Linda Feldman, associate professor of German, University of Windsor, Canada
Jo Erbacher, concerned European
Edit Weigl-Gibby, teacher, director, London
Jean Morris, writer and translator
Jennifer Wong, poet and translator
Todd Swift, editor and publisher, Eyewear Books
Dr Geraldine Green, poet, tutor, editor
Dr Carly Holmes, writer and editor
Andy Ching, editor and publisher
Ben Borek, poet, Poland
Peter Fredlake, eeducator and photographer, USA
Marieke Piggott-Boswinkel, translator and editor
Andrew Fentham, poet and translator from Hungarian
Laurie Stone, writer
SJ Butler, writer, UK
Michelle Madsen, poet, journalist, theatre-maker, London
Samia Malik, singer / songwriter
Dr Alena Oberfalzerová, head of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies, Charles University, Prague
Lucie McKee, poet
Bobby Parker, poet and artist
N J Hynes, writer
Rob Hay, scientist and acoustician
Max Dunbar
Morelle Smith, writer and translator, UK
Peadar O'Donoghue, poet, publisher
John Fitzgerald, poet, attorney
Graham Burchell, poet and teacher
Ashley Louise Fox, writer, poet and artist
Jane Burn, poet and checkout operator
G. R. Livingston
Ruth Philo
Diane Cockburn, pet and teacher
Agnes Somlo, literary translator
Gabor Hellyer, CEU graduate and descendant of 1956 refugees
June Nandy, poet
Maria Heath Becket, writer
Denise Burchard
Leslie McGrath, poet and educator,  Central Connecticut State University
Hannah Vicek
Robert Shaw, theatre and opera director, hungarophile, London
Jan Fortune
Deirdre O'Neill, editor
Allison Hope
Dr Leila Farnes, RCSI, Norway
Moira Forsyth, author and publisher
Peter Adair, poet
Marion Kelly, Ireland
Nick Hilditch, animator, Budapest
Lee Moore
L. E. Usher, author, Australia and UK
Szilvia Schmitsek, doctoral researcher, The University of Warwick
Jacqui McMenamin
Jé Maverick
Györgyi Jakobi, journalist, Budapest
Michel Queue, France
Eoin Barry
Stephen Varcoe
Dr Rob Miles, poet, lecturer University of Hull
Georgina Kuna, teacher, access to music, Norwich
Katrina Naomi, poet, Penzance
Angela Carr, poet and architect, Dublin
Maurice Devitt, writer, Dublin
Ross Wilson, Lecturer in Criticism, University of Cambridge
Humphrey Astley, writer, Oxford
Eunice Yates, freelance writer, Belfast and London
Brian Kirk, writer, Dublin
Nicholas Birns, writer and academic, New York
Haworth Hodgkinson, composer and writer, Aberdeenshire
Michael T, Young, poet, US
Chris Meade, PhD student, University of Bath Spa
Katy Evans-Bush, writer, London
Jaimie Shorten, architect, London
David Hirsh, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
Jennifer Mackintosh, conference interpreter, teacher
Felicity Evans, writer and editor, Cambridge
Theophi Kwek, writer, Oxford
Anne Berkeley, Cambridge
Rishi Dastidar, poet and copywriter
Scott Barley, filmmaker, visiting lecturer, Winchester School of Art
James O'Fee, Northern Ireland
Iain Robinson, writer and academic, Norfolk
Marilyn Francis, poet, Radstock
Edmund Prestwich, retired teacher, Manchester, UK
Aidan Semmens, journalist and poet, Suffolk
Josephine Balmer, poet and translator, East Sussex, UK
Kathryn Gray, writer, London
Louise Lotz, complementary therapist, poet, Welwyn Garden City
Rachel Burns, writer, Durham
Robbie Burton, poet, North Wales
Jennifer Grey, London
Frederick Taylor, historian, West Cornwall
Cutter Streeby, poet and translator, USA
Irena Szirtes, retired, Worcestershire
Katherine Rosen, arts consultant, Monte Sereno, USA
Andrew Philip, poet, West Lothian
Jackie Gorman, poet, Athlone, Ireland
Julia Seiber Boyd, retired lawyer, Chair Cambridge Szeged Soc, and Mátyás Seiber Trust
Sally Craythorne, writer, Norfolk
Anders Howerton, software engineer and poet, Oakland, USA
Pamela Ireland Duffy, La Rochelle, France
Crysse Morrison, writer, Frome
Victoria Neumark Jones, associate professor, journalism, London Met. University
Sandra Banawich, ex-Councillor, poet, St Helen's, UK
Cath Drake, poet and writer, London
Maggie Harris, writer UK
Gill Stoker, London, UK
Robert R. Calder, University of Strathclyde, editor Lines Review
Tom Hubbard, Scottish novelist, poet, editor, was visiting professor ELTE, Budapest
James Knight, poet, Wells, Somerset
Anne-Marie Creamer, artist, lecturer, University of the Arts, London
Rebecca Farmer
Janet Sutherland, poet, Lewes, UK
Nell Sartain, teacher, Cambridge, UK
Patrick Williamson, poet and translator, Paris
Elenor Knott, academic, London School of Economics
Sean Fraser, writer, Galveston, Texas
Emma van Woerkom, poet, Wales
Zoltán Rozgonyi, director, Euroexam, Budapest
Dr Michael G. Stevens
JustinCoe, poet
Breda Wall Ryan, writer, Ireland
Lyn Moir, poet and translator, St Andrews, Scotland
Lemuel Ibbotson, retired academic
Theo Best, teacher, Norwich
Marie Hudson (nee Rudas) yoga teacher, Powys
Rinzing Kelsang, musician, photographer and Buddhist monk
Robert Fitzmaurice
Isobel Urquhart, retired lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Philip O'Neil, poet, writer
Luise Valentiner Moulin, graphic designer, letterpress artist, Scotland
Clare Cox, university administrator
Louisa Adjoa Parker, writer, Dorset
Ben Richardson, bookseller, Norwich
Helen Farrell Simcox, writer and artist, Cork
Irina Shkolnik, banker, Miami
Adrian Green, poet, UK
Dr Martin Smith, academic editor, artist
David Spiller, Higher Education Consultant, Australia
Maria Clara Paulino, art history professor, USA and Portugal
Lillian King, writer, Scotland
Julia Sherwood
Habie Schwarz, photographer and consultant
Dan Duggan, poet, outsider artist, London
Barbara Cumbers, poet, UK
Susan Gunn, artist, Manchester
Dick Jones, teacher, poet, translator
Andrea Fisher de Cuba, musician and English trainer, Vienna
Ambrose Musiyiwa, facilitator, CivicLeicester
Suzannah Endfield Olivier
Silva Zanoyan Merjanian, poet, USA
Patricia Allmer, Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art
Sue Healy, playwright
Susan Bernofsky, Columbia University School of the Arts
Jill Galvan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Ohio State University
Zoltan Zubornyak, actor
Christopher Hawtree, writer and library campaigner, Hove, England
Prof. Toby Walsh, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Guest Professor TU Germany
Klara Szentirmay, translater, publisher, editor, Wellington, New Zealand
Edward Vanderpump, teacher / writer, Norwich, UK
Rebecca Tamás, British-Hungarian poet, UEA
Pauline Levis, retired teacher, London
Marysia Wojtaszek, Scotland
Ed Luker, poet
Elizabeth Rimmer, poet, Scotland
Tim Cumming, writer
Kieran Ryan, artist, poet, student,  University of the Arts, London
István Kolozsi, designer, Hungary
Sonja Benskin Mesher
Ed Cottrell, London
Maggie Alexander, teacher, London
Peter Sherwood, Emeritus Professor of Hungarian, University of North Carolina
Professor Stephen Harnad, Universities of Southampton and Quebec* resigned from Hungarian Academy in protest at failure to resist Orbán
Nigel Quinton
Claire Potter, poet
Julia Keddle, education writer
Hisham M Nazer, poet, Department of English, Varendra University
Sarah Tyler, office manager, Devizes
Alison Stewart, writer and teacher
Naomi Kerans, retired teacher
Merryn Williams, poet, North Oxford
David Lefeber, Dorset
Jackie York, artist, Banbury
Rakesh Bhanot, teacher, freelance writer
Matthew Falaize, writer
Lenke Kiss, concerned Hungarian, St Albans
Benedick Grant, writer
Emma Farrant, physician of Chinese medicine
Tamás Szelei, software developer, Hungary
Dr Jo Catling, University of East Anglia
Gábor Gasztonyi, photographer, writer
Prue Chamberlayne, poet, retired researcher and academic
Anne Caldwell, Open University, poet
Barton Young, songwriter
José Maria Peréz Fernándes, English Department, University of Granada, Spain
Jenny Swann
Andrew Oldham
Lena Camp, European Association for Jewish Culture
Adam Strickson, Teaching Fellow in Theatre and Writing, University of Leeds
Jonathan Jarrett, Lecturer in Early Medieval History, University of Leeds
Ivan Vince
Jen Webb, academic, Australia
Kim Baker, concerned friend of Hungary, Paris
Mary Clarke
Csilla Toldy, Rostrevor, Northern Ireland
Sarah Watkinson, scientist, poet, Oxon, UK
Anne Phillips, teacher
Zia Haider Rahman, author
Helen de Cruz, Senior Lecturer in Philosopher, Oxford Brookes.
Jane Hattatt, BSc
Claire Steele, writer, teacher, Buckinghamshire
Lance Hattatt, BA
Dorothy Allan
Catherine Ayres, teacher, Alnwick
Chozo Tull, musician
Sue Guiney, writer, Cambodia
Dr Robert Mayer, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
Katy Carr, European and citizen of the world.
Joel Davie, librarian, Nottingham
Carolyn O'Connell
Richard Sheehan, editor, Leicester, UK
Erica Sartor, Krakow, Poland
Pat Winslow, poet, Oxfordshire
James Ellis, writer, Bath
Patricia Horgan BD, nurse
Mark Wingrave
Kay Bentley, teacher trainer, Norwich
Becky Cherriman, writer, UK
Sarah Hymas, writer, UK
Dr Suzanne Fairless-Aitken, academic and editor, Hexham, Northumberland
Prof E. S. Shaffer, Series Editor, The Reception of British & Irish Authors in Europe