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List Of Hungarian Writers
Below is an alphabetical list of notable Hungarian writers. Abbreviations: children's (ch), comedy (co), drama (d), fiction (f), non-fiction (nf), poetry (p) A–B C–F G-J K L–O P–S T-Z References {{Lists of writers by nationality Hungarian Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Ábrányi
Emil Ábrányi (22 September 1882 11 February 1970) was a Hungarian composer, conductor, and opera director. Life He was conductor at the Royal Hungarian Opera House from 1911–19, and director there from 1919 to 1920. In 1921, he became the director at the Budapest Municipal Theatre, where he remained until 1926. For many years he taught conducting at the Budapest Academy of Music. He composed twelve operas of which only six have been performed professionally. He was the grandson of the composer Kornél Ábrányi. Operas *''A ködkirály'' (The King of Mist) (1 act, libretto by Á. Pásztor, 17 May 1903, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *''Monna Vanna'' (3 acts, libretto by Emil Ábrányi, Sr. (father of the composer) after Maeterlinck's drama of the same name, 2 March 1907, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest). *''Paolo és Francesca'' (3 acts, libretto after Dante by Emil Ábrányi, Sr., 13 January 1912, Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest) *''Don Quijote'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
János Batsányi
János Batsányi (9 May 1763 in Tapolca – 12 May 1845 in Linz) was a Hungarian poet. In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars". In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of the Hungarian city of Kassa ( Košice), and there, in conjunction with other two Hungarian patriots, edited the ''Magyar Museum'', which was suppressed by the government in 1792. In the following year he was deprived of his clerkship and in 1794, having taken part in the conspiracy of Ignác Martinovics, he was thrown into the state prison of the Kufstein Fortress, where he remained for two years. After his release, he took a considerable share in the ''Magyar Minerva'', a literary review, and then proceeded to Vienna, where he obtained a post in the bank. He married Gabriella Baumberg,aka Gabriele von Baumberg a renowned poet from Vienna in 1805. Four years later he translated Napoleon's proclamation to the Hungarians, and, in consequence of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Bruck
Edith Bruck (born 3 May 1931)Edith Bruck: ''Who love you like this''. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2001, p. 3; Philip Balma: ''Edith Bruck in the Mirror. Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives'' (''Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies''). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2014, p. 2. Recently Edith Bruck claimed her birth year was often wrongly stated as 1932, while the correct year was 1931.Podcast source minute 1:34:43 is a Hungarian-born writer, director and Holocaust survivor. She has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian. Early life The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she was born Edit Steinschreiber in the village of Tiszabercel near the Ukrainian border. In 1944, with her parents, two brothers and a sister, she was sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. The family was transferred to Dachau where her father died, then to Christianstadt and finally Bergen-Belsen, where the remaining children were liberated by the Allies in 1945. One brother als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sándor Bródy (writer)
Sándor Bródy (23 July 1863 in Eger – 12 August 1924) was a Hungarian author and journalist. Biography Bródy was born in Eger, Hungary. His family was Jewish. After attending the schools of Eger he devoted himself entirely to literature. From 1888 to 1890 he was editor of the "'' Erdélyi Híradó''", published at Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca), and was also connected with the "''Erdélyi Képes Ujság''" and the political daily "'' Magyarság''". Since 1890 he was a member of the "''Magyar Hírlap''", and since 1882 a prolific contributor of articles, feuilletons, stories, and novels to the leading literary publications of Hungary. In his works he depicts the dark side of life, and is a disciple of the modern French realistic school. In 1995, the literary award :Sándor Bródy prize recognizing the best first novel of the year published in Hungarian was established in his honor by his grandson, the :Hungarian American Alexander Brody.Bródy Sándor utca named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ágota Bozai
Ágota Bozai is a Hungarian writer. She was born in Siófok, Hungary in 1965. She holds an MA degree in philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ... from the University of Kolozsvár i.e. Cluj-Napoca. She is currently a literary translator of English books (fiction and non-fiction) for various Hungarian publishers. Her writing has been described as a "satirical account of what happened in the east European Countries when ‘at-all-costs capitalism’ sprung up from the ashes of the previously Soviet-controlled governments." Her novels include Persian Divan and To Err is Divine, Mi az ábra? (What's Up? 2003) and A szerelmetlen város (A Loveless Little Town, 2004). She has recently been writing her PhD thesis in English Literature and teaches Creative Writing at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péter Bornemisza
Péter Bornemisza (c. 1535 – 1584) was a Hungarian Lutheran bishop of noble birth. His father was killed by the Turks around the time he was six years old. A scholar from England, at the University of Cracow, first interested him in Protestantism and later Philipp Melanchthon had a strong impact on him. He later preached and printed Protestant works in his native land. In addition to religious work he proved to be a significant playwright of works such as ''Magyar Elektra''. Hungarian composer György Kurtág's song cycle A song cycle (german: Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online'' The songs are either for solo voice ... ''The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza'' (1963–1968) for soprano and piano incorporates brief texts from Bornemisza's sermons. References Hungarian male dramatists and playwrights Hungarian Lutheran cler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Bone
Edith Bone (28 January 1889 – 14 February 1975), originally Edit Olga Hajós, was a medical professional, journalist and translator who later became a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Early life Bone was born in Hungary in 1889. Hajós married Béla Balázs in 1913. After the First World War she joined the Bolshevik Party in Petrograd. In 1918, she began editing the English version of the ''Communist International'' magazine and later became a courier for the parent organisation. She lived in Berlin, Germany from 1923 to 1933, leaving for Britain when the Nazis took over. She married Gerald Martin, a British translator, in February 1934. Bone learnt to speak six languages fluently. In July 1936, she and her friend and fellow communist, artist Felicia Browne, travelled to Spain to attend the international People's Olympiad, a protest event against the 1936 Olympics. However the event was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Browne would become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katalin Bogyay
Katalin Annamária Bogyay (born 20 August 1956) is a Hungarian ambassador, diplomat, journalist and the President of the United Nations Association of Hungary since April 2021. She has been a lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 2022, and teaching at the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy since 2021. In 2021 she founded the Women4Diplomacy movement. She served as the 15th Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations in New York (1 January 2015 - 31 December 2020). She is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO (2009–2014) and the President of the 36th session of UNESCO General Conference (2011–2013). Early life and education Katalin Bogyay was born in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. She graduated in Economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest and obtained a Master of Arts in Communications from the University of Westminster (London) with Chevening Scholarship. Professional career She began h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janka Boga
Janka Boga Dénesné (31 January 1886 – 4 October 1963) was a Hungarian writer and teacher. Born in Gyergyóújfalu (now Suseni, Romania) in 1886, Boga worked as a teacher in Kecskemét and retired in 1952. In 1920, she started publishing her writings in several local publications, and Szeged Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the m ... was the place for the first performances of her theatre plays. Works *''Vezeklés'' (Kecskemét, 1930) *''Légy az élettársam'' (Bp., 1934) *''Él-e még a jóság?'' (Kecskemét, 1948) References 1886 births 1963 deaths Hungarian women writers Hungarian schoolteachers Hungarian women dramatists and playwrights People from Harghita County 20th-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Hungarian women writers< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ádám Bodor
Ádám Bodor (born 22 February 1936 in Cluj) is a Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin. Life and writing Bodor was born in Romania to a staunchly anti-communist father and was himself an anti-communist. In his youth he believed in Transylvanian independence and overthrowing the Communist state. At seventeen he was arrested by the Securitate The Securitate (, Romanian for ''security'') was the popular term for the Departamentul Securității Statului (Department of State Security), the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. Previously, before the communist regime .... After being freed he studied at a Calvinist seminary and began writing. After this he left Romania for Hungary and then spent some time in the West. Several of his works have been adapted to film. Bibliography * ''A tanú'' (1969) * ''Plusz-mínusz egy nap'' (1974) * ''Megérkezés északra'' (1978) * ''Milyen is egy hágó?'' (1980) * ''A Zangezur hegység'' (1981) * ''Az E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Z
László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a history of being frequently anglicized as Leslie. It is the most common male name among the whole Hungarian male population since 2003.https://nyilvantarto.hu People with this name are listed below by field. Given name Science and mathematics * László Babai (b. 1950), Hungarian-born American mathematician and computer scientist * László Lovász (b. 1948), Hungarian mathematician * László Fejes Tóth (1915–2005), Hungarian mathematician * László Fuchs (b. 1924), Hungarian-American mathematician * László Rátz (1863–1930), influential Hungarian mathematics high school teacher * László Tisza (1907–2009), Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * László Mérő (b. 1949), Hungarian research psychologist and sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kata Bethlen
Countess Kata Bethlen de Bethlen (1700–1759), sometimes referred to as Katherine Bethlen, was one of the earliest Hungarians to write memoirs. She was born on November 25, 1700, in Bonyhád, Hungary, and died on July 29, 1759, in Fogaras, Hungary (now Făgăraș, Romania). Family and marriages Kata Bethlen, as a member of the notable Bethlen family, was active in Hungary's cultural and intellectual life. She was the niece of the Chancellor of the Principality of Transylvania, Miklós Bethlen, and in her second marriage wed to the son of a later Chancellor, Mihály Teleki. Her first marriage had been politically motivated, her Roman Catholic half-stepbrother being forced on her at the age of 17. The antagonism between her Protestantism and the Catholicism of her husband's family affected her strongly. Her husband's family denied her access to her children and her daughter's malicious teasing was mentioned in her writing. She remarried after the death of her first husband and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
