György Károly (''Károly György'', 31 August 1953 – 26 October 2018) was a Hungarian poet and writer.

Biography

Károly was born in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

on 31 August 1953, the only son of György Károly (1924–2003), a

butcher A butcher is a person who may Animal slaughter, slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale ...

, and Ilona Szabó (1928–2014), a

tailor A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century. History Although clothing construction goes back to prehistory, there is evidence of ...

. He spent his early life in

Szigetszentmiklós Szigetszentmiklós ( /nowiki>; German language, German: ''Nigglau'') is a city in Pest County, Hungary, with around 40,000 inhabitants. Name * Sziget – island: Szigetszentmiklós is a town on Csepel Island * Szent Miklós – Saint Nichol ...

, where he finished his primary school years. After he completed his studies in Budapest. Károly was educated as a

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...

and began to write in the 1970s. He published his first poems in ''

Élet és Irodalom ''Élet és Irodalom'' (, also known as ''ÉS''; meaning ''Life and Literature'' in English) is a weekly Hungarian magazine about literature and politics. History and profile ''Élet és Irodalom'' was first published as a literary magazine on ...

'' (“Life and Literature”). He was poetic silent in the 1980s. In the nineties Károly began writing again.

Bibliography

Books

* Károly György: ''Folyamatos május'' (poems, private edition,

1999) * Károly György – Péter Péter: ''Dunakanyaró'' (poems, private edition,

Vác Vác (; ; ; ) is a thousand-year old city in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''. Location Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank of the Danube river, below t ...

2005)

Anthologies

* ''Téli tárlat ’98'' (Madách Imre Művelődési Központ,

1998, 96 pages) * ''Gondolattánc'' (Svájci-Magyar Kiadói Kft.,

2000, 270 pages) * ''Szótól szóig'' (Alterra Svájci-Magyar Kiadó Kft.,

2002, 340 pages) * ''A Dunakanyar költészete 2005'' (Kucsák Könyvkötészet és Nyomda,

2005, 199 pages) * ''Ezer magyar haiku'' (Napkút Kiadó,

2010, 332 pages)

Literary journals

* A Céh * Árgus * Bárka * Béta magazin (β) * C.E.T – Central European Time * Duna-part * Élet és Irodalom * Havi Magyar fórum * Hírnök * Holmi * Igazunk * Madách Rádió * Magyar Élet (

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

) * Magyar Demokrata * Magyar Fórum * Magyar Napló * Magyar Világ * Mozgó Világ * Műhely * Napút * Pannon Tükör * Parnasszus * Petőfi Rádió * Új Pest megyei Hírlap * Somogy * Törökfürdő * Új Hagyomány * Váci Napló * Váci Polgár

Personal life

Károly was married to Annamária Szklenkay (born 1958), with whom he had five children. They lived in

for twenty years, and in

Pilis Pilis () is a town in Pest County, Hungary. History The town was inhabited in Prehistory, prehistoric times, but was abandoned at the end of the Pannonia, Roman rule. Pilis was then first mentioned in 1326. It was destroyed during Ottoman Hungar ...

for three years before moving to

. Károly died of a

brain tumor A brain tumor (sometimes referred to as brain cancer) occurs when a group of cells within the Human brain, brain turn cancerous and grow out of control, creating a mass. There are two main types of tumors: malignant (cancerous) tumors and benign ...

on 26 October 2018.Death announcement on official website
/ref>

References

External links (Hungarian texts)

Official website of György Károly

---- * Assorted poems on Wikisource * Sonnetset on Wikisource (

Crown of sonnets A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to one person, and/or concerned with a single theme. Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by re ...

) {{DEFAULTSORT:Karoly, Gyorgy 1953 births 2018 deaths Deaths from brain cancer in Hungary Hungarian male poets 20th-century Hungarian male writers 20th-century Hungarian poets 21st-century Hungarian poets 21st-century Hungarian male writers Writers from Budapest