Remembering Paul Sohar

Paul Sohar (1936-2023) was a longtime member of AHEA. It was after he retired from corporate employment that he became active in literature and in AHEA. We are pleased to bring two original contributions in this tribute to our late colleague. Anne Dropick interviewed Paul at our Quinnipiac conference in 2023 and contributed his recollections about his flight from Hungary and settlement in the US. Paul Sohar worked with Zoltán Böszörményi on the translation of many of his works, including a novel that appeared in Paul’s 2019 translation as The Refugee. The novel recounts the flight and camp life of a refugee who could be a Hungarian in 1956 Austria.