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
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 ...
. Another major Hungarian literary prize is the
Kossuth Prize
The Kossuth Prize (, ) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1936, by the Hungarian National Assembly, to acknowledge outstanding personal and grou ...
Lajos Áprily
Lajos Áprily (birth name Lajos Jékely; 14 November 1887 – 6 August 1967) was a Hungarian poet and translator who won the 1954 Attila József Prize for his contributions to Hungarian literature. Áprily was born 14 November 1887 in Brassó ...
1954
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Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó (5 October 1917 – 19 November 2007) was a Hungarians, Hungarian novelist. Doctor of philology, she also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the , an online dig ...
1959 and 1972
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Sándor Csoóri
Sándor Csoóri (3 February 1930 – 12 September 2016) was a Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician.
Biography
In 1950, he graduated from the Reformed College in the town of Pápa (:hu:Pápai Református Kollégium) and then studied ...
1954
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István Fekete
István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to:
People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal
* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first k ...
Béla Vihar
Béla Vihar () (23 May 1908 – 24 November 1978), born Béla Weisz, was a Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and teacher. He is known for his book entitled "Yellow Book, Facts of the Wartime Sufferings of Hungarian Jewry" which was the first do ...
1966
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Mozes Kahana
Mozes Kahana (; ; , 26 November 1897 – 11 April 1974) was a Hungarian-born writer, poet, essayist and revolutionary active in Romania, the Soviet Union and Hungary.
Biography Early life
Kahana was born in 1897 into a Jewish family in Gyergyób ...
1968
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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, Pilins ...
1971
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Menyhért Lakatos
Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Romani people in Hungary, Hungarian Romani writerMiklós Szentkuthy 1977
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Ágnes Gergely
Ágnes Gergely (born 5 October 1933) is a Hungarian poet, 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 Pla ...