Zsigmond Móricz

Zsigmond Móricz was born in Tiszacsécse in 1879, the son of a peasant and of a mother from an old, impoverished noble family. He studied Reformed theology in Debrecen, switched to law without completing his studies, then in 1903 became a journalist at the daily Az Újság. His short story Hét krajcár, published in the journal Nyugat, made him known. Co-editor of that journal from 1929, he is one of the great realist prose writers of the country, and died in Budapest in 1942.

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