Author · Hungary
István Örkény
Died in 1979
István Örkény was born in Budapest on 5 April 1912, the son of a well-off Jewish pharmacist. A pharmacy graduate in 1934, then a chemical engineer, he was sent in 1942 to the Russian front in a labour company reserved for Jews. Taken prisoner, he spent several years in Soviet camps and returned only in 1946. Banned from publishing after 1956, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry until 1963, then returned through the theatre with La Famille Tót. He died in Budapest on 24 June 1979.
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- Short storiesOne Minute StoriesEgyperces novellákIstván Örkény · 1968Literature