Antal Gidash

Born into a large family of shoemaker Franz Gyula. In 1919 he made his debut in newspapers with revolutionary poems. In 1920, together with his first wife, Judith Santo ( Szántó Juditt ) emigrated from Hortist Hungary to Slovakia. In 1924, divorced from Judit. In 1925, a collection of revolutionary poems about the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic was published in Vienna, filled with hopes for a new upsurge - “Az ellenforradalom földjén” (“On the Land of Counter-Revolution”). In 1925 he returned to Hungary, and again emigrated - to the USSR, through Vienna and Berlin.

In Moscow, he married sixteen-year-old Agnes (Agnes) Kun ( Hungarian. Kun Ágnes ), the daughter of Bela Kun . He worked as a journalist and editor of foreign literature. Translated into Hungarian poems by Russian classics and contemporaries. From 1938 to 1944 he was in the settlement. After his arrest, Agnes was forced to renounce her husband, which she did not; In 1941, she spent four months in custody. ^[3]

He wrote a biographical book for the ZhZL series about Sandor Petofi (1949). ^[4] This book, like many other prose works by Antal Gidash, was translated into Russian by Agness. Together with his wife were the main experts on Hungarian culture in the USSR. Under their leadership, the books of many Hungarian poets were translated and published in the 1950s in the Soviet Union. In 1946, A. Gidash and A. Kuhn convinced the Goslitizdat in Moscow that it was time to acquaint Soviet readers with Hungarian classical poetry. Together with Eugenia Knipovich, they selected the names of suitable poets for Russian translations, among the explicit masters Knipovich recommended Leonid Martynov, a little-known Gidash, as well. In the future, the couple of the Gidashas and the couple of the Martynovs were connected by close friendship. ^[5] In 1959, the Gidashi received permission to return to Hungary, and together with his wife returned to their historic homeland. In Hungary, he was engaged in publishing classics of Russian literature .

He was buried in Budapest at the Kerepeshi memorial cemetery. Agnes Kun, who died in 1990, was also buried next to him.

• Kossuth Prize (1962) ^[6]
• Order of Friendship of Peoples , for merits (December 17, 1979)

Poetry

• Az ellenforradalom földjén, Bécs, 1925.
• Hungary rejoices . Moscow, Tsentrizdat, 1930.

• A gyarmatok kiáltanak, Moszkva, A Szovjetunióban Élő Külföldi Munkások Kiadóvállalata, 1933.
• Work and bread . M., Young Guard, 1933.
• Guest or host. M., Soviet literature, 1933.
• Earth is moving . M., Partnership of Writers, 1934.
• Néném kertje . Budapest, Zrínyi, 1958.
• Jázmin utca, Budapest, Szépirodalmi, 1960.
• Megtalálnak, Budapest, Magvető, 1964.
• Vágyódunk utánad, Budapest, Magvető, 1968.
• Villanások és villongások, Budapest, Magvető, 1970.
• Hold iramlott, nap sütött, Budapest, Szépirodalmi, 1972.
• Egy erős topolya, Budapest, Magvető, 1974.
• Cseresznyefák, Budapest, Szépirodalmi, 1978.
• Mi lesz holnap ?, Budapest, Szépirodalmi, 1979.
• Nagy hegyeknek ormán, Budapest, Kozmosz Könyvek, 1979.
• Esik a hó, Budapest, Szépirodalmi, 1981.
• Visszatérek, Budapest, Szépirodalmi, 1983.

Novels

• Mr. Fitzek (1936), Ficzek úr.
• Marton and His Friends (1959) Márton és barátai.
• Other music needed (1963) Más muzsika kell ....

Memoirs

• Világotjárt sorok, Budapest, Magvető, 1973.
• Szólok az időhöz, Budapest, Magvető, 1979.

• Russians O. Antal Gidash. Essay on creativity. M., 1970.
• Agnes Kun. Exception // Science and life . - 1988. - No. 9 . - S. 12-14 .
• Melentyev Yuri A word about a happy person. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Antal Gidash // Ogonyok, No. 52, 1979, p. 17

• Poems by A. Gidash translated by L. Martynov