Miklós Bátori, pen name of Miklós Bajomi (1919Th
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of the general catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gives this date of 1919 with a question mark. Gyula Borbándi also indicates 1919 in her encyclopedia . or in 1920Back cover of his novel ''Les Briques'', Robert Laffont, reprint. 1984 . – 25 February 1992) was a Roman Catholic writer of Hungarian origin.

Life

Born in

Bátaszék Bátaszék (german: Badeseck, sr, Батсек, Batsek) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. The majority residents are Hungarians, with a minority of Serbs. "The oldest tree of Bátaszék" won the title of European Tree of the Year 2016. The Ro ...

(Hungary), in 1944 he published his first novel, ' (literally: "Mudflat") in Budapest, still under the name Miklós Bajomi. He was taken prisoner of war in France in 1945, and enrolled at the Sorbonne after his release. He returned to Hungary in January 1947 for family reasons and then went on to study at university in Budapest. He then taught in the provinces (from 1951 to 1956) in a technical high school in

Győr Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia ...

where he was also director of the boarding school. He fled Hungary after the crushing of the

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and moved to Paris. He was a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian literary and cultural magazine in Paris ' and also wrote in other Hungarian emigration newspapers. In 1960, he published in Hungarian ' in Cologne (''Calvary Road'') after the address of his high school (in French ''Un étrange paradis''), which describes the time when, as a teacher at Győr, he fled with a group of Catholics persecuted by the communist power and in 1961, ' (literally: "Death in the vineyard"), which evokes the effort of Christians to recover, under a hostile regime, the purity of the early Church. This last book, translated and published in French in 1965 under the title ''Le Vignoble des saints'', was awarded the

Grand prix catholique de littérature The grand prix catholique de littérature is a French literary prize awarded by the Association des écrivains catholiques de langue française (established in 1886). History Established in 1945 (prix du Renouveau français) under the impulse of ...

. In 1963, ''Les Briques'' is a novel from the last days of the Hungarian revolution. In 1967, ''Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu'' features the evangelist

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who tells what he has seen throughout his life. His following works were written directly in French. Bátori died in Paris.

Work

* ''Un étrange paradis'', Plon, 1961 (translated from Hungarian) ', Cologne 1960) * ''Les Briques'',

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, 1963 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript) * ''Le Vignoble des saints'', Robert Laffont, 1965 (translated from Hungarian ', Cologne 1961,

. * ''Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu'', Robert Laffont, 1967 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript (crowned by the

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) * ''Le lièvre a pleuré'', Robert Laffont, 1969, * ''La vie est un océan'', Robert Laffont, 1973 * ''Bakfitty'',

Fayard Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ...

, 1977 * ''Notre ami, Lazare (chronique)'',''Notre ami, Lazare (chronique)''
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Éditions du Cerf ''Éditions du Cerf'' ( French: "Editions of the Deer") is a French publishing house specializing in religious books. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the Dominican Order. The name is a reference to Psalm 42 (41): As the hart pantet ...

, 1983).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Batori, Miklos 20th-century Hungarian novelists Roman Catholic writers 1992 deaths 20th-century Hungarian male writers Hungarian male novelists