László Kovács (; December 15, 1950) is a Hungarian Slovene-language writer, amateur actor, and beekeeper. Kovács was born in Vashegyalja,

Vas county Vas (, ; ; or ; ) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''vármegye'') of Hungary. It was also one of the counties of the former Kingdom of Hungary. It is part of the Centrope Project. Geography Vas County lies in weste ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

(today Kétvölgy). His father, Vilmos Kovács, is of Hungarian descent, and his mother was a Slovene, Mária Zankócs. In the 1970s and 2000s, he taught in

Apátistvánfalva Apátistvánfalva (, ) is a village in Vas County, Hungary. Notable residents

* Károly Krajczár (born 1936), Hungarian Slovene teacher * Ferenc Marics (1791–1844), Hungarian teacher * Antal Stevanecz (1861–1921), Hungarian Slovene teach ...

. Between 1998 and 2006 he was the mayor of

Apátistvánfalva Apátistvánfalva (, ) is a village in Vas County, Hungary. Notable residents

* Károly Krajczár (born 1936), Hungarian Slovene teacher * Ferenc Marics (1791–1844), Hungarian teacher * Antal Stevanecz (1861–1921), Hungarian Slovene teach ...

. Kovács led the amateur theatrical company Veseli Pajdaši after Irén Barbér's death and authored a few comedies in

Prekmurje Slovene Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, Eastern Slovene, or Wendish (, , Prekmurje Slovene: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmörski jezik, panonska slovenščina''), is the language of Prekmurje in Easte ...

, and with his group received the national prize ''A Nemzetiségi Hagyományok Átörökítéséért'' (For the Legacy of Minority Cultures) in 2010 at the ARCUSFEST international theater festival in Budapest. Kovács is also a recognized beekeeper in the Slovene region of Hungary, who uses the old traditional apiary methods and produces some specialty honey.Porabje, Časopis Slovencev na Madžarskem 17. oktobra, 2013.

Notes

Literature

* Franci Just: ''Besede iz Porabja, besede za Porabja'', Franc-Franc,

Murska Sobota Murska Sobota (, Slovenian abbreviation: ''MS'' ; ;''Radkersburg und Luttenberg'' (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut. ) is a town in northeastern Slovenia. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Murska Sob ...

2003. * Franci Just: ''Porabje'', Franc-Franc, Murska Sobota 2009. * Bea Baboš Logar: Prekmurska narečna slovstvena ustvarjalnost – mednarodno znanstveno srečanje: prekmurščina zanimiva tudi za tuje znanstvenike, ''Vestnik'' July 17, 2003.

External links

Magyarországi Nemzetiségi Színházi Szövetség – Szlovén színházak

Az apátistvánfalvi Vidám Barátok amatőr színjátszócsoport premierje (apatistvanfalva.hu)

A MSzSz apátistvánfalvi Vidám barátok színjátszó Csoportja (Zveza Slovencev na Madžarskem/Magyarországi Szlovének Szövetsége)

Television interview Gotthardtv.hu

Slovenski utrinki (2011-07-07)
1950 births Living people 20th-century Hungarian educators 21st-century Hungarian educators Hungarian beekeepers Mayors of places in Hungary Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary {{Hungary-mayor-stub