Károly Pallai is a a historian of literature, poet, translator and editor, and founder of the electronic literary review Vents Alizés. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Francophone Literatures and has published several collections of poems and a play.

He is the author of academic works on the contemporary literature of Oceania and the Indian Ocean published by the University Press Pécs (Subjectivités seychelloises, Mosaïque des océans, >Microlectures polynésiennes). He is the first Hungarian translator of several languages (Seychelles, Mauritius, Haitian and Guadeloupean Creole, Papiamento, Sranan, Sarnami, Saramaccan and Aukan). He has received several awards and prizes in acknowledgement of his work as a historian of literature, translator and poet.