Ferenc mate biography of michael
This is a memoir by a Hungarian author, Ferenc Máté, also featuring his wife Candace, about their adventures searching for a house and living a simple life in.!
Author of The world's best sailboats, Ghost Sea, From a Bare Hull, The Hills of Tuscany, Finely Fitted Yacht, A Reasonable Life, Shipshape.
Ferenc Máté
Hungarian-Canadian writer and author
Ferenc Máté | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 79–80) Hungary |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Education | University of British Columbia |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction, memoir |
| Subject | Boat building, historical fiction, |
| Notable works | From a Bare Hull, A Reasonable Life, The Hills of Tuscany |
| www.ferencmate.com | |
Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungarian Transylvania) grew up in Budapest.
He escaped Hungary with his mother after the crushing of the 1956 revolution by Soviet tanks. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and worked on a railroad extra-gang, on tugboats, and as a boat-builder. He then became a photographer, book editor, and writer.
He has lived in Vancouver, Laguna Beach, Whistler Mountain, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter.
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