Milán Füst (17 July 1888,

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– 26 July 1967, Budapest) was a Hungarian writer, poet and playwright.

Biography

Early in life, his family lived on Dohány utca in the 7th district of Budapest. In 1908 he met the writer Ernő Osvát and published his first work in the literary revue ''Nyugat''. He befriended Dezső Kosztolányi and Frigyes Karinthy. After studying law and economics in

, he became a teacher in a school of business. In 1918, he became the director of Vörösmarty Academy, but was forced to leave the post in 1921. In 1928, a nervous breakdown led him to spend six months in a sanatorium in

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. Already since 1904 he had begun working on his long ''Journal''. However, a large part of this work, concerning the period 1944-1945 would later be destroyed. In 1947, he became a teacher at Képzőművészeti Főiskola. He received the

Kossuth Prize The Kossuth Prize ( hu, Kossuth-díj) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 (on occasion of the centenary of the March 15th revolution, the ...

in 1948, and was a considered a contender for the 1965

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. His best-known novel, ''A feleségem története'' (''

The Story of My Wife ''The Story of My Wife: The Reminiscences of Captain Storr '' is a Hungarian novel by Milán Füst. First published in Hungary in 1946, it was eventually translated into English by Ivan Sanders in 1988. The book is written as if it is a memoir a ...

''), was published in 1942.

References

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