Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926,
Vésztő
Vésztő is a town in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of 125.76 km2 and has a population of 6855 people (2015). The town is situated in the Tisza plain.
History
North of ...
— August 21, 2007,
Budapest
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) was a
Hungarian Romani writer
["Lakatos Menyhért"]
a bio at the Lakatos Menyhért School website, citing Lajos Rácz
Lajos Rácz (born in Budapest 1 July 1952) is a Hungarian wrestling, wrestler. He won an Olympic silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1980. He won a gold medal at the 1979 World Wrestling Championships.
References
External links
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, ''Roma értelmiségiek arcképcsarnoka''
Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).
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His most famous book, ''Füstös képek'' ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as ''The Color of Smoke'') is a novel based on personal experience, set in ]World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. It is a ''bildungsroman
In literary criticism, a bildungsroman () is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words ('formation' or 'edu ...
'' that shows life in a Roma village in Northeast Hungary, from 1940 until the German occupation of the country in 1944 when Roma people were put into death camps. While filled with amusing anecdotes, with a petty criminal subplot, and adolescent eroticism, it portrays dehumanization of Romani in the society.
There is the Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest
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.
Books
*1975: ''Füstös képek''
**Bulgarian: Окадени картини, 1977
**German: ''Bitterer Rauch.'' Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1978 (), 1979, 1980, 1982
**French: ''Couleur de fumée : une épopée tzigane'', Paris, Actes Sud, 1986.
**English: ''The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma'', 2015,
*1975: Angárka és Busladarfi
*1979: A hét szakállas farkas
*1979: A paramisák ivadékai
*1981: Az öreg fazék titka
*1981: Csandra szekere
**German: Csandras Karren. Zigeunergeschichten. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1984
*1982: Akik élni akarta
*1995: Hosszú éjszakák meséi
**German: ''Märchen der langen Nächte. Roma-Märchen.'' Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004 (), 1999
*1998: A titok
*1999: Tenyérből mondtál jövendőt
Awards
Significant awards include:"LAKATOS MENYHÉRT"
''Kortárs magyar írók'' (''Contemporary Hungarian writers''), 1998,
*2000: National Romani Self-Government Lifetime Achievement Award
*1999:
*1995: Book of the Year Award
*1993:
Attila József Prize The Attila József Prize is an annually awarded Hungarian literary prize for excellence in the field of belles-lettres. It was first presented in 1950 in honour of the poet Attila József. Another major Hungarian literary prize is the Kossuth Prize. ...
*1976: Attila József Prize
*1976:
References
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1926 births
2007 deaths
Hungarian writers
Romani writers
Attila József Prize recipients