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Attila József Prize
The Attila József Prize is an annually awarded Hungarian literary prize for excellence in the field of belles-lettres. It was first presented in 1950 in honour of the poet Attila József. Another major Hungarian literary prize is the Kossuth Prize. Prizewinners ''For a complete list of prizewinners see listing at the Hungarian Wikipedia'' :Some notable prizewinners include: *László Németh 1951 * Géza Képes 1952 * Sándor Dallos 1953 * Lajos Áprily 1954 *Magda Szabó 1959 and 1972 *Sándor Csoóri 1954 *István Fekete 1960 * Margit Szécsi 1960 *Endre Illés ( hu) 1963 *Endre Fejes 1963 * Béla Vihar 1966 *János Pilinszky 1971 *Menyhért Lakatos 1976 *Miklós Szentkuthy 1977 *Ágnes Gergely 1977 and 1987 *Anna Dániel 1983 *Zsuzsa Rakovszky 1987 *Menyhért Lakatos 1993 *Zsófia Balla (1996) *Attila Bartis (2005) *Zsófia Bán 2008 *Attila György Attila György (born 15 August 1971, Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita County, Romania), is a Székely writer, journalist, and lite ...
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Attila József
Attila József (; 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was one of the most famous Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet" and he has become the best known of the modern Hungarian poets internationally. Biography Attila József was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest, in 1905 to Áron József, a soap factory worker of Székely and Romanian origin from Banat, and Borbála Pőcze, a Hungarian peasant girl with Cuman ancestry; he had two elder sisters, Eta and Jolán. When József was three years old, he was sent to live with foster parents after his father abandoned the family and his mother became ill. At the time of his birth, Attila was not a well known name; because of this, his foster parents called him Pista, a nickname for the Hungarian version of Stephen. From ages seven to fourteen, József returned to living with hi ...
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János Pilinszky
János Pilinszky (27 November 1921 in Budapest – 27 May 1981 in Budapest) was one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Well known within the Hungarian borders for his vast influence on postwar Hungarian poetry, Pilinszky's style includes a juxtaposition of Roman Catholic faith and intellectual disenchantment. His poetry often focuses on the underlying sensations of life and death; his time as a prisoner of war during the Second World War and later his life under the communist dictatorship furthered his isolation and estrangement. Born in a family of intellectuals in 1921, Pilinszky went on to study Hungarian literature, law, and art history at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in 1938. Although he failed to complete his studies, it was during this same year that his first works of poetry were published in several varying literary journals. In 1944 he was drafted into the army; his unit being ordered to follow the retreating German allies, he arriv ...
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Hungarian Literary Awards
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Attila György
Attila György (born 15 August 1971, Miercurea Ciuc, Harghita County, Romania), is a Székely writer, journalist, and literary editor. He has received the Attila József Prize The Attila József Prize is an annually awarded Hungarian literary prize for excellence in the field of belles-lettres. It was first presented in 1950 in honour of the poet Attila József. Another major Hungarian literary prize is the Kossuth Prize ... for excellence in Hungarian literature. Biography György graduated from the Miercurea Ciuc School of Mathematics and Physics (now Márton Áron Gymnasium). Between 1991 and 1997, he was a journalist and editor for such publications as ''Ifi Fórum'', ''If'', ''Zabhegyező'', and '' Erdélyi Napló''. Since 1997, he has been editor of the cultural journal ''Székelyföld. I''n 1999, he edited the Transylvanian professional journal ''Könyvjelző'', and the Internet portal ''Internetto Transsylvaniae''. His short stories, novellas and journalism appear regu ...
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Zsófia Bán
Zsófia Bán (born September 23, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a writer, literary historian, essayist and art and literature critic. Personal life Zsófia Bán grew up in Rio de Janeiro as the child of Jewish parents. In 1969, she and her family returned to Hungary where she studied English language and Literature as well as Romance Studies in Budapest (1976–1981), Lisbon, Minneapolis and New Brunswick. She has worked in film studios, curated art exhibitions, was a fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut in Berlin, a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, as well as a writer-in-residence in Zug, Switzerland, among other residencies. From August 2015 to July 2016 Bán was a writer-in-residence at the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Artists-in-Berlin Program. She lives and works in Budapest, where she was an associate professor of American Studies at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of ...
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Attila Bartis
Attila Bartis (born 1968) is a Romanian-born Hungarian writer, photographer, dramatist and journalist. He received the Attila József Prize in 2005. His books have been translated into over 20 different languages. In 2001, he published his second novel, '' Tranquility'', which was adapted into film in 2008. In 2017, he became a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. Early life and education Attila Bartis was born in 1968 in Târgu Mureș, in the Transylvania region of Romania. His parents were (1936–2006) and Margit Gherasim. Ferenc, his father, was a writer, poet and journalist. His family were part of the Hungarian minority of Romania. Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Ferenc was imprisoned in Gherla Prison but was given amnesty by Nicolae Ceaușescu seven years later and released. Attila grew up drawing, painting, photographing and writing poems and short stories. His mother, who played the violin, died in the summer of 1983. In 1984, sixteen-y ...
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Zsófia Balla
Zsófia Balla (born 15 January 1949) is a Romanian-born Hungarian poet and essayist. She is considered to be one of the most prominent female poets in Hungary. Biography Balla was born in the Romanian city of Cluj to ethnic Hungarian parents. Her father was a writer and her mother a German teacher. She studied music (violin) at the Cluj Academy of Music, graduating in 1972. After divorcing her first husband, she married the poet Csaba Báthori in 1997. After publishing her first poems in the journal ''Igaz Szó'' in 1965, her first collection of poetry ''A dolgok emlékezete'' (Memories of Things) was published in Bucharest in 1968. From 1972, she worked in the Hungarian department of the Cluj radio station as music editor until the station was closed in 1985. Thereafter, she worked as a journalist for the national Romanian newspaper ''Elore'' and as literary editor for two weekly magazines. In 1990, she became a member of the Hungarian Writers Association and in 1992 she joine ...
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Zsuzsa Rakovszky
Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 4 December 1950) is a Hungarian translator and writer. Her surname also appears as Rakovsky. She was born in Sopron and earned a teaching certificate in Hungarian and English from the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest. From 1975 to 1981, she worked as a librarian. She published two poetry collections: ''Jóslatok és határidők'' (Prophecies and Deadlines) in 1981 and ''Tovább egy házzal'' (One house up) in 1987. Rakovszky received the Attila József Prize The Attila József Prize is an annually awarded Hungarian literary prize for excellence in the field of belles-lettres. It was first presented in 1950 in honour of the poet Attila József. Another major Hungarian literary prize is the Kossuth Prize ... in 1987. She has won the Tibor Déry Prize and the (Robert) Graves Prize. Rakovszky has translated works by a number of English and American poets into Hungarian. Selected works * ''F ...
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Anna Dániel
Anna Dániel (July 10, 1908 - September 17, 2003) was a writer, literary historian and teacher born in Budapest, Hungary. For her work, she was awarded the József Attila Prize. Life Anna Daniel graduated from the Pázmány Péter Science University as a French and German teacher, but also taught Hungarian and world literature. She started her teaching career at the Erzsébet School. Her husband was economist Kerékgyártó János (1909-1968). She published several novels and young adult A young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence. Definitions and opinions on what qualifies as a young adult vary, with works such as Erik Erikson's stages of human development significantly influencing the definition of ... novels. She wrote for newspapers and translated from French and German. She was a member of the Hungarian Writer Alliance. Work Novels * ''Somehow we need to live...'' (Bp.: Révai, 1933) * ''Princess Elisabeth'' (Bp.: Dante 1938-1944 é ...
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Ágnes Gergely
Ágnes Gergely (born 1933) is a Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator. Biography She was born Ágnes Guttmann in family of Fenákel Rózsika and György Guttmann in Endrőd, a village on the Great Hungarian Plain. She took her pen name "Gergely" from the novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi because Agnes Gergely wished to be courageous like the hero from the story, Gergely Bornemissza. Her father György Guttmann was murdered in the Holocaust. She began work in a factory in 1950 but later went on to study Hungarian and English literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest. She taught secondary school, was a radio producer and was feature editor for the weekly literary magazine ''Nagyvilág''. From 1973 to 1974, Gergely took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She also has translated English and American works into Hungarian and has lectured on English literature at ...
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Miklós Szentkuthy
Miklós Szentkuthy (born Miklós Pfisterer; 2 June 1908 – 18 July 1988) was one of the most prolific Hungary, Hungarian writers of the 20th century. His works include numerous novels, essays, translations, and a voluminous diary spanning the years 1930–1988. As the author of masterpieces such as ''Prae'', the epic 10-volume ''St. Orpheus Breviary'', ''Chapter on Love'' and ''Towards the One and Only Metaphor'', he is recognized as one of the most significant Hungarian writers of the 20th century. To date, his works have been translated into English, French language, French, Spanish language, Spanish, Portuguese language, Portuguese, Romanian language, Romanian, Slovak language, Slovak, and Turkish language, Turkish. Style Szentkuthy composed an oeuvre both imposing and complex, centered on the conflict between art and life, or the aspiration for holiness and eroticism. It includes fictionalized biographies of musicians such as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart, artists like Dürer and B ...
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Menyhért Lakatos
Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer"Lakatos Menyhért"
a bio at the Lakatos Menyhért School website, citing Lajos Rácz, ''Roma értelmiségiek arcképcsarnoka''
Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége). His most famous book, ''Füstös képek'' ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as ''The Color of Smoke'') is a novel based on personal experience, set in . It is a ''