Author · Hungary
József Lengyel
Died in 1975
József Lengyel was born in Marcali on 4 August 1896, the son of a Jewish grain merchant who was ruined in 1907. He studied literature in Budapest, then law in Pozsony without completing it, published his first verses in 1916 in Kassák's journal, and joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1918. After the fall of the Republic of Councils, he lived in Vienna, then in Berlin, and reached Moscow in 1930 as a press correspondent. Arrested in 1938, he spent eight years in the camps of Norilsk and Kansk, then was sent into internal exile in Siberia; returning in 1955, he died in Budapest on 14 July 1975.
In the catalogue 1
- Short storiesIgézőJózsef Lengyel · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature