Áron Tamási

Áron Tamási, born János Tamás in Farkaslaka in 1897 into a large family of poor Székely peasants, lost a finger at the age of nine when a pistol went off in his hand. He fought on the Italian front in 1918, studied law in Kolozsvár and then commerce, and lived in the United States from 1923 to 1926, first in odd jobs and then as a bank clerk. Back in Kolozsvár, he settled in Budapest in 1944, sat in Parliament from 1945 to 1947, was kept on the sidelines after 1949, received the Kossuth Prize in 1954 and died in Budapest on 26 May 1966.

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• NovelAbel AloneÁbel a rengetegbenÁron Tamási · 1932Literature