Layosh Nagy (February 5, 1883, Apostag - October 28, 1954, Budapest ) - Hungarian writer and journalist. Most of his artistic heritage is stories.
Layosh Nagy | |
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Nagy lajos | |
Date of Birth | February 5, 1883 |
Place of Birth | Apostag |
Date of death | October 28, 1954 (71 year) |
Place of death | Budapest |
Citizenship | Hungary |
Occupation | novelist |
Years of creativity | 1907-1954 |
Genre | story, novel |
Language of Works | Hungarian |
Awards | Kosuth Prize ( 1948 ) [d] ( 1932 ) [d] ( 1935 ) [d] ( 1938 ) |
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Biography
Born out of wedlock, his mother Julia Nagy was a maid. Was brought up mainly by grandparents. He graduated from high school in 1901, then worked as a teacher of mathematics and physics, worked part time in a law firm and as a private tutor for children from wealthy families, and studied at the college where he studied law; in 1906, he worked for some time as an assistant to a district judge, but he never received a law degree.
He published his first works in the organ of the Social Democratic Party Népszava (“Nepasawa”), then became close to the circle of writers associated with the modernist magazine Nyugat (“Nyugat”). In 1907 he published his first novel, since 1908 he also wrote stories devoted to the problems of everyday life. In 1915 he was called up for military service in connection with the First World War , but did not serve on the front line, and in 1917 he was dismissed from military service because of poor nervous health.
From 1918 he edited the satirical journal Bolond Istók , from 1922 to 1929 he collaborated in the literary magazine Nyugat , then in the publications Esti Kurir and Együtt ; in the 1920s – 1930s he published many of his own stories and feuilletons in them. In the 1920s he became close to the banned Hungarian Communist Party . In 1935 he got married. In 1940, not being able to live only on the income from literary activities, he opened his own bookstore. In 1945, he joined the Communist Party of Hungary , becoming one of the most famous Hungarian socialist writers in the 1950s.
In 1932, 1935 and 1938 he was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, in 1948 he received the Kossuth Prize .
Works
Major works: the novels “Kiskunkhalom” (1934), “Three Hungarian Cities” (1935), “Mask of the Village” (1937), the story “The Apprentice” (1945), “The Village” (1946), and also the autobiographical novels “Rebel” ( 1949) and The Fugitive (1954).
Bibliography
- Klanitsai T., Sauder I., Szabolchi M., A Brief History of Hungarian Literature XI — XX Centuries, [Budapest], 1962;
- Kardos P., Nagy L. élete és művei, Bdpst, 1958.
See also
Links
- An article in Magyar életrajzi lexikon (Hungarian biographical encyclopedia).
- A magyar irodalom arcképcsarnoka
- Életrajza a virtuális kiállításon
- Képtelen természetrajz letölthető a MEK oldalairól
- Nagy Lajos: Tizzer kilométer Oroszország földjén. Könyvismertető az 1989-es kiadásról.
- Nagy Layosh - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia . - incorrect facts are indicated (Layosh was not the son of a peasant and did not receive a law degree).