Adam Biro is founder of the art book
publishing house
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Biro Éditeur in
Paris
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and the author of nine books. Biro served as manager of Biro Éditeur until 2009, when the position passed to Stéphane Cohen. As of 2010, Biro continued to serve as an editorial advisor. Biro was born in
Hungary
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, but left for
Paris
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at the age of fifteen.
List of works
*''Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New'' by Adam Biro, Translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press
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, 2009, )
*''One Must Also Be Hungarian'' by Adam Biro, Translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006, )
*''Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New'' by Adam Biro, Translated by Catherine Tihanyi (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, )
References
Book reviews
Review ''One Must Also Be Hungarian''
Review ''One Must Also Be Hungarian''
External links
from ''One Must Also Be Hungarian''
from ''Two Jews on a Train: Stories from the Old Country and the New''
Living people
Hungarian Jews
Hungarian emigrants to France
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Paris
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