Sándor Tar

Sándor Tar was born in Hajdúsámson on 5 April 1941 into a family of poor peasants. Trained as an armaments technician at a technical secondary school in Debrecen, he worked in a medical instruments factory in the city until he was dismissed in 1992. Winner in 1976 of the first prize in a sociography competition, he published his first book at the age of forty. In 1999 he revealed that from 1978 he had been an informer for the political police, under threat of blackmail linked to his homosexuality. He died in Debrecen on 30 January 2005.

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• Short storiesA 6714-es személySándor Tar · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature