Iván Mándy (23 December 1918 in
Budapest
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– 6 October 1995 in Budapest) was a
Hungarian writer.
Biography
From 1945 on Mándy worked at the literary revue
Újhold. After the Soviet takeover he became a freelance writer. In 1989 he got again the chance to write for a literary newspaper. He was promoted as a candidate for the
Nobel Prize in Literature
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in 1993 by the
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
He died in 1995 in Budapest.
External links
Iván Mándy: On the balcony - Selected short stories
Hungarian writers
1918 births
1995 deaths
Hungarian children's writers
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