AustLit

Sandor Berger received a limited formal education in Csenger and after migrating to Australia he worked as a labourer, truck driver and taxi driver. He has said that his poetry was influenced by the Hungarian poet Petofi and Gyorgy Faludi's The Ballads of Francois Villon. He published two collections of letters and articles sent to the Sydney press from 1954-1961 and 1964-1968. In 1994 Annette Corkhill summarised his literary experience as 'the despair of the old world of the village encountering the new, technological, cosmopolitan, larger world and discovering how wide the gulf of estrangement for the immigrant can be.' Berger has also published books and pamphlets on psychiatry and politics and wrote both the words and music for "Six Tunes" [195-?].