Kálmán Mikszáth
Kálmán Mikszáth Kiscsoltó was a major Hungarian novelist, journalist, and politician.
Mikszáth was born in Sklabiná into a family of the lesser nobility. He studied Law at the University of Budapest from 1866 to 1869, although he did not apply for any exam, and became involved in journalism, writing for many Hungarian newspapers including the Pesti Hírlap.
His early short stories were based on the lives of peasants and artisans, and had little appeal. However, they demonstrated his skill in crafting humorous anecdotes, which would be developed in his later, more popular works. Many of his novels contained social commentary and satire, and towards the end of his life they became increasingly critical of the aristocracy and the burden he believ
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Eric Knight
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He was a native of Yorkshire in England, and had a varied career, including service in the Canadian Army during World War I and spells as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter.
His first novel was Song on Your Bugles (1936) about the working class in Northern England. As "Richard Hallas," he wrote the hardboiled genre novel "You Play The Black and The Red Comes Up" (1938). Knight's "This Above All" is considered one of the significant novels of The Second World War.
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Jelenleg szupervízorként és coachként dolgozik. Első könyve, egy drogfüggő fiatalokkal készült riportkötet, 1998-ban Kábítószeretet címmel jelent meg. 2002-ben jelent meg az Állítsátok meg Terézanyut! címmel első regénye, amelyből 2004-ben készült az Állítsátok meg Terézanyut! című film, Hámori Gabriella főszereplésével. 2003 és 2008 között a Maxima című lapban heti rendszerességgel jelentek meg írásai. Második regénye 2009. november 23- -
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Sütő was born into a poor peasant family in Cămăraşu (Hungarian: Pusztakamarás), in Cluj County, Transylvania. He received his primary and secondary school education in the Reformed College of Aiud and in the Reformed gymnasium in Cluj. After secondary school, he studied Stage Directing at the Szentgyörgyi István College of Dramatic Arts in Cluj.
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Gárdonyi was born in Agárdpuszta, Kingdom of Hungary, the son of a machinist on the estate of an aristocrat in Western Hungary. He graduated at a college for teachers and worked for some years as a teacher and Catholic cantor. He married Mária Molnár in 1885, but their marriage was unhappy and they separated in 1892.
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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He was born at Puszta-Nyék (now Kápolnásnyék), of a noble Roman Catholic family. His father was a steward of the Nádasdys. Mihály was educated at Székesfehérvár by the Cistercians and at Pest by the Piarists. The death of the elder Vörösmarty in 1817 left his widow and numerous family extremely poor. As tutor to the Perczel family, however, Vörösmarty contrived to pay his own way and go through his academical course at Pest.
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Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 -
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Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilated Jewish parents in Budapest, but baptized Catholic. He studied Hungarian, German and later English, obtaining a doctorate in 1924. From 1924 to 1929 he lived in France and Italy, also spending a year in London, England.
As a student he published essays on Georg Trakl and Stefan George, and quickly established a formidable reputation as a scholar, writing erudite studies of William Blake and Henrik Ibsen among other works. Elected President of the Hungarian Literary Academy in 1933 - aged just 32 -, he published his first novel, The Pendragon Legend (which draws upo -
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István Fekete
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He is perhaps best known for his youth novel Tüskevár ("Thorn Castle", 1957), about two city boys' summer holiday at the corner of Lake Balaton and Zala River, their experiences, adventures, contact with Nature in its genuine form. They are helped by an old man on their gradual journey into manhood. This novel was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1960, was made into a film in 1967 (see its IMDb entry) and was voted to be the 8th most liked novel of Hungary in the Big Read in 2005. Its sequel was Téli berek ("Winter Grove", 1959).
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Kollár Betti
Kollár Betti 1998-ban született Budapesten, szociológia alapszakon végzett.
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2015-ben indította el blogját, melyen fiataloknak szóló romantikus történeteket tesz közzé mind a mai napig. Írásaiban a szerelem és a humor játszik központi szerepet. Első sikerét A vonzás törvénye című mű hozta meg számára, amely 1,7 milliós nézettségével a maga műfajában az egyik legolvasottabb történetnek számít a magyar olvasók körében a Wattpad-en.
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István Fekete
István Fekete was a Hungarian writer, author of several youth novels and animal stories.
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He is perhaps best known for his youth novel Tüskevár ("Thorn Castle", 1957), about two city boys' summer holiday at the corner of Lake Balaton and Zala River, their experiences, adventures, contact with Nature in its genuine form. They are helped by an old man on their gradual journey into manhood. This novel was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1960, was made into a film in 1967 (see its IMDb entry) and was voted to be the 8th most liked novel of Hungary in the Big Read in 2005. Its sequel was Téli berek ("Winter Grove", 1959).
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Sándor Petőfi
People best know Hungarian lyric poet and revolutionary hero Sándor Petöfi, originally Sándor Petrovics, for his patriotic songs and the epic poem Janos the Hero (1845).
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This key national of Serb and Slovak descent figured in the Hungarian revolution of 1848.
Petőfi started his career as a poet with "popular situation songs," to which his first published poem, A borozó ("The Winery", 1842), belongs. This song of a drinker praises the healing power of wine to drive away all troubles. Despite this not unusual kind of pseudo-folk song in Hungarian poetry of the 1840s, Petőfi quickly developed an original and fresh voice, which made him stand. He wrote many poems like folk song on the subjects of wine, love, romantic robbers et cetera. The lo -
Imre Madách
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Mihály Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty was an important Hungarian poet and dramatist.
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He was born at Puszta-Nyék (now Kápolnásnyék), of a noble Roman Catholic family. His father was a steward of the Nádasdys. Mihály was educated at Székesfehérvár by the Cistercians and at Pest by the Piarists. The death of the elder Vörösmarty in 1817 left his widow and numerous family extremely poor. As tutor to the Perczel family, however, Vörösmarty contrived to pay his own way and go through his academical course at Pest.
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Ferenc Herczeg (born Franz Herzog, 22 September 1863, Versec, Hungarian Kingdom - 24 February 1954, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country. He founded and edited the magazine Új Idők ("New Times") in 1895, which remained for half a century the literary magazine of the conservative upper and middle classes of Hungary. In 1896 he was elected to parliament and in 1901 became the president of the Petőfi Society. In the early '50-s he was deported from Budapest to the Hungarian GULAG and released in 1953 - after Stalin's death, when the labor camps were liquideted. He died soon, in the next year.
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Ferenc Sánta
Ferenc Sánta was born to a peasant family in the Transylvania region of Hungary.
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Ferenc Móra
Ferenc Móra was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, into a financially poor family. His father Márton Móra was a tailor, and his mother Anna Juhász was a baker. He acquired his formal education under the most extreme hardships because of the financial poverty of his family. At the Budapest University he earned the degree of Geography and History education but worked as a teacher only for one year at Felsőlövő, Vas county. He was a prominent figure of youth literature in Hungary. His parallel career of museology started in 1904 at the combined library and museum of Szeged serving the county capital of Szeged and its surrounding Csongrád county. He was appointed as the director of the combined library and museum of Szeged and Csongrád county in 1917 an
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István Csukás
Kossuth-díjas magyar költő, író.
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Kisújszálláson született, egy nehéz sorsú kovácsmester nagyobbik fiaként, és itt járta ki az elemi iskolát is. A háború után egy zenetanár biztatására, anyja akaratából jelentkezett az akkor alakult békéstarhosi zeneiskolába: hegedűművész akart lenni.
Bár jól érezte magát a zeneiskolában, később mégis fellázadt a zene ellen: érettségi után felvételi nélkül felvették volna ugyan a Zeneakadámiára, mégis a jogi egyetemre jelentkezett, majd egy idő után átment a bölcsészkarra, de bölcsész tanulmányait sem fejezte be 1956 után. "Egészen más a zenei hallás és a verszenei hallás" - mondta Lackfi Jánosnak a 75. születésnapjára készült szubjektív portréban, M. Nagy Richárd Csukás 75 című filmjében[1]. Törzshelye lett a