John M RidlandLondon-born John M. Ridland (1933 - 2020) lived most of his life in California, for over four decades a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He published eleven volumes of original verse, and ranslations from the Middle English (Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl) and Hungarian (Petőfi's John the Valiant) in addition to volumes of selected verse of Márai and Radnóti with Peter Czipott. He received the Bálint Balassi Memorial Sword in 2010. Read More Read Less