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    Born 1950 in Boston.  Grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and in Bethesda, Maryland near Washington. Began traveling the world at 17 years old when my insane parents let me drive with just some buddies from Washington to Montreal. 

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    1. What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?  I left my museum-mania life in Budapest, retired and moved to beautiful Kapolcs Village in the Arts Valley in Northern Balaton.  Was initially busy renovating and restoring an old ruin on a vineyard estate.  Sometimes questioning my sanity, wearing wellies and knee deep in compost! 

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    In 2015 and 2017, Patrick won a translation grant from the Milán Füst foundation to support his work translating plays by Milán Füst (Boldogtalanok) and Sándor Bródy (A dada). He plans to continue his work as a literary translator and dreams of producing an anthology of classic Hungarian plays in his own English translations.

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