2018 PEN Translation Prize, winner, for the translation of Katalin Street by Magda Szabó.2015 New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2015, for Magda Szabó's The Door.2006 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize winner, for the translation of Magda Szabó's The Door.2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (short-listed) for the translation of Magda Szabó's The Door.Len Rix's first published translation from Hungarian was of Tamás Kabdebó's Minden idők ( A Time for Everything) (Cardinal Press, 1995), but he is best known for his renderings of Antal Szerb, especially Journey by Moonlight ( Utas és holdvilág, 1937), and of Magda Szabó's The Door ( Az ajtó, 1987) and Katalin Street ( Katalin utca, 1969).

Rix learned Hungarian on his own, using textbooks, audio recordings and literature. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and subsequently as a teacher of English at Manchester Grammar School (where he was also Head of Careers), before retiring in 2005 to live in Cambridge. In 1963 he won a Commonwealth Scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he read English. Len Rix was born in Zimbabwe in 1942, where he studied English, French and Latin at the (then) University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Len Rix is a Zimbabwe-born translator of Hungarian literature into English, noted for his translations of Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend and of Magda Szabó's The Door and Katalin Street. Zimbabwe-born translator of Hungarian literature into English

Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb