Jenő Dsida (, ; 17 May 1907 – 7 June 1938) was a Hungarian poet and translator.

Early life

Jenő Dsida was born in 1907, in Transylvania. His father - Aladár Dsida - was an engineering officer in the

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of the

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. His mother, Margit Csengeri Tóth lived in

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and that is where she met and married her husband. Jenő's childhood was shadowed by

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and after that by the Romanian occupation. During the war, his father was captured by the Russians, while his uncle was killed in Galicia. He wanted to be a poet from the very beginning of his youth. He was discovered and helped by Elek Benedek. From 1923 to 1927 his first poems and literary translations were published in the magazine "Cimbora". In 1925, in cause of his parents' will, he studied law at the

Franz Joseph University Royal Hungarian Franz Joseph University () was the second modern university in the Hungarian realm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Founded in 1872, its seat was initially in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). After World War I, it first moved to Budap ...

, but he never graduated. In 1937, he married the love of his life Melinda Imbery.

Death

Dsida suffered from heart failure and in 1938, he got cold. Therefore, he was hospitalized for months in

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, but unfortunately he died in his sleep at the age of 31.

Works

* Leselkedő magány (1928) * Nagycsütörtök (1933) * Angyalok citeráján (1938) * Jövendő havak himnusza (1923-1927) * Rettenetes virágének (1928-1938) * Séta egy csodálatos szigeten (1992) * Légy már legenda (2005) * Magyar karaván Itálián keresztül (2006) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dsida, Jeno 1907 births 1938 deaths People from Satu Mare 20th-century Hungarian poets