Miklós Bátori, pen name of Miklós Bajomi (1919Th
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of the general catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gives this date of 1919 with a question mark. Gyula Borbándi also indicates 1919 in her encyclopedia . or 1920Back cover of his novel ''Les Briques'', Robert Laffont, reprint. 1984 . – 25 February 1992) was a Roman Catholic writer of Hungarian origin.

Life

Born in

Bátaszék Bátaszék (, ) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. The majority residents are Hungarians, with a significant minority of Germans. "The oldest tree of Bátaszék" won the title of European Tree of the Year 2016. The Roman Catholic writer Mikló ...

(Hungary), in 1944 he published his first novel, ' (literally: "Mudflat") in Budapest, still under the name Miklós Bajomi. He was taken prisoner of war in France in 1945, and enrolled at the Sorbonne after his release. He returned to Hungary in January 1947 for family reasons and then went on to study at a university in Budapest. He then taught in the provinces (from 1951 to 1956) in a technical high school in

Győr Győr ( , ; ; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia region, and – halfwa ...

where he was also director of the boarding school. He fled Hungary after the crushing of the

Hungarian Revolution of 1956 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; ), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by ...

and moved to Paris. He was a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian literary and cultural magazine in Paris ' and also wrote in other Hungarian emigration newspapers. In 1960, he published in Hungarian ' in Cologne (''Calvary Road'') after the address of his high school (in French ''Un étrange paradis''), which describes the time when, as a teacher at Győr, he fled with a group of Catholics persecuted by the communist power and in 1961, ' (literally: "Death in the vineyard"), which evokes the effort of Christians to recover, under a hostile regime, the purity of the early Church. This last book, translated and published in French in 1965 under the title ''Le Vignoble des saints'', was awarded the

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. In 1963, ''Les Briques'' is a novel from the last days of the Hungarian revolution. In 1967, ''Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu'' features the evangelist

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who tells what he has seen throughout his life. His following works were written directly in French. Bátori died in Paris.

Work

* ''Un étrange paradis'', Plon, 1961 (translated from Hungarian) ', Cologne 1960) * ''Les Briques'',

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, 1963 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript) * ''Le Vignoble des saints'', Robert Laffont, 1965 (translated from Hungarian ', Cologne 1961,

. * ''Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu'', Robert Laffont, 1967 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript (crowned by the

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) * ''Le lièvre a pleuré'', Robert Laffont, 1969, * ''La vie est un océan'', Robert Laffont, 1973 * ''Bakfitty'',

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, 1977 * ''Notre ami, Lazare (chronique)'',''Notre ami, Lazare (chronique)''
on WorldCat Éditions du Cerf, 1983).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Batori, Miklos 20th-century Hungarian novelists Hungarian Roman Catholic writers 1992 deaths 20th-century Hungarian male writers 20th-century Roman Catholics Hungarian male novelists