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Faludy is a Hungarian surname. People with the surname include: * Alexander Faludy (born 1983), English former child prodigy * György Faludy (1910–2006), Hungarian-born poet, writer and translator See also * Susan Faludi Susan Charlotte Faludi (; born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitze ... (born 1959), American journalist and author {{surname Hungarian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Faludy
Reverend Alexander Faludy (born 1983), son of English schoolteachers, Andrew and Tanya Faludy, and grandson of the celebrated Hungarian poet, György Faludy, is an Anglican priest presently pursuing legal studies. A dual British and Hungarian national, he is a critic of the current regime of prime minister Viktor Orbán in Hungary. Notable as a child prodigy, in 1998, despite having dyslexia, he became the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge since 1773. He was also the subject of a test case that established that the obligation of local authorities to fund education for students under the age of eighteen did not apply in respect of university education. Early life, dyslexia and studies at Cambridge The son of two teachers from Portsmouth, Faludy attended Milton Abbey School, a boarding school in Dorset. In October 1998, when he joined Peterhouse at the age of 15 years and 7 months, Faludy became the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Faludy
György Faludy (September 22, 1910 – September 1, 2006; ), sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. Life Travels, vicissitudes, and remembrance Faludy completed his schooling in the Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium and studied at the Universities of Vienna, Berlin and Graz. During these times he developed radical liberalist views, which he maintained till the very last days of his life. In 1938, he left Hungary for Paris because of his Jewish ancestry, and then for the U.S. During World War II, he served in the American forces. He arrived back in Hungary in 1946. In April 1947 he was among a group that destroyed a Budapest statue of Ottokár Prohászka, a Hungarian bishop who is respected by many but who is often considered antisemitic. He only admitted his participation forty years later. In 1949 he was condemned with fictitious accusations and was sent to the labor camp of Recsk for three years. During this time, he lectured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Faludi
Susan Charlotte Faludi (; born April 18, 1959) is an American feminist, journalist, and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance". She was also awarded the Kirkus Prize in 2016 for ''In the Darkroom'', which was also a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Biographical information Faludi was born in 1959 in Queens, New York, and grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York. She was born to Marilyn (Lanning), a homemaker and journalist, and Stefánie Faludi (then known as Steven Faludi, and born István Friedman), who was a photographer. Stefánie Faludi had emigrated from Hungary, was Jewish, and a survivor of the Holocaust; she eventually came out as a transgender woman and died in 2015. Susan Faludi has dual US-Hungarian citizenship. Faludi's maternal grandfather was also Jewish. Sus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |