Géza Képes (February 1, 1909 – August 19, 1989) was a Hungarian poet, translator and

polyglot Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...

. He was born in

Mátészalka Mátészalka is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. It is on the Kraszna River, 52 kilometers from the city of Nyiregyhaza. Geography It covers an area of and has a population of 17 ...

and died 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 ...

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Hungarian Radio
1909 births 1989 deaths People from Mátészalka Hungarian male poets 20th-century Hungarian translators 20th-century Hungarian poets 20th-century Hungarian male writers Attila József Prize recipients {{Hungary-writer-stub