"The proverb is not said in vain" - Investigations of the nature of proverbs

Anna T. Litovkina is a professor of Russian origin, a well-known proverb researcher both in Hungary and abroad (University of Pécs, Gyula Illyés College, Szekszárd), who has written more than forty studies and book chapters on proverbs (in English, Hungarian and Russian). The young researcher is the author of three books. He published the first, Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs (1999), in collaboration with Wolfgang Mieder. His other work is A Proverb a Day Keeps Boredom Away (2000). His third book, Once upon a Proverb: Old and New Tales, Shaped by Proverbs (2004). In 2005 under the care of Tinta Könyvkiadó, the Hungarian Proverb Library was published. dictionary. Wolfgang MiederWolfgang Mieder is a professor of German descent living in the United States and an internationally renowned proverb researcher (University of Vermont, Burlington). editor-in-chief of a professional journal, author of more than 100 books and 300 studies published in many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, Chinese, and Spanish. Only a few of his works are mentioned here: Antisprichwörter (1982, 1985, 1989); A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992); Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature (1987); American Proverbs: A Study of Texts and Contexts (1989); Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age (1993); Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb (1994); The Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes (1997); Cognition, Comprehension, and Communication: A Decade of North American Proverb Studies (1990-2000) (2003); Proverbs: A Handbook (2004).