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 documentary book about
The Holocaust
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in the world. His famous poem, "A Soldier walking in the snow" (, translated by László Tehel) commemorates all the soldiers who lost their lives in war.
Biography and career
Béla Vihar was born on 23 May 1908 in
Hajdúnánás. His parents were Samuel and Terez (nee Glucklich) Weisz, who would become Jewish victims of the
Holocaust
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.
Béla married Magda Widder, the daughter of painter
Félix Bódog Widder
Félix Bódog Widder (; 28 April 1874 – 26 September 1939) was a Hungarians, Hungarian painter, graphic designer and teacher.
Family and education
Félix Bódog Widder was born on 28 April 1874 in Arad, Romania, Arad. His daughter was Magda ...
, and their daughter was
Judit Vihar
Judit Vihar () (born 28 August 1944) is a Hungarian literary historian, Japanologist, professor emerita, translator, haiku poet and head of The Hungary–Japan Friendship Society. She has been active in the relationship between Japan and Hungar ...
.
His poems were published in English,
Bulgarian,
Czech
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, French,
Hebrew
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,
Croatian, German, Italian, Russian,
Romanian
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, Spanish and
Slovak languages. In the 1970s his
radio drama
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"''Der Fremde. Hörspiel – Ballade''" (The Stranger. Radio Drama – Ballad) was a great success in Germany.
We two, alone:
We are two at the birth.
We are two in love, lonely
at the time of death
References
Awards and honors
*
Attila József Prize – 1966
Bibliography
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Selected works
Books
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Poems
* Út önmagadtól (1933)
* A szerelem születése (1958)
* Baráti asztal (1960)
* Önarckép 1962 (1962)
* A négy felelet (1965)
* Kígyóének (1970)
* Párbeszéd az idővel (1968)
* Küzdelem az angyallal (1973)
* Szamárháton (1976)
* Egy katona megy a hóban (1978)
* Az alkonyat kapujában (1980)
* Elröppent lakodalom (1984)
* Szíjak között (ed. Judit Vihar). Széphalom Könyvműhely, Budapest. 1998. (Disclosed: Among Phylacteries)
External links
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1908 births
Writers from Budapest
1978 deaths
Hungarian male poets
Attila József Prize recipients
20th-century Hungarian poets
20th-century Hungarian male writers
20th-century Hungarian journalists
People from Hajdúnánás
Burials at Kozma Street Cemetery