Aladár Lászlóffy

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Aladár Lászlóffy (born May 18, 1937 in Turda , Romania  , † April 20, 2009 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian-speaking author who lived in Romania.

Life

Aladár Lászlóffy grew up as a member of the Hungarian population in Romania and attended the Reformed High School in Cluj. He studied Hungarian literature at the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj . He worked as a lecturer of Hungarian literature in Romania, including children's books, and as an editor of literary magazines, for which he also wrote. He was an important advocate for the preservation of Hungarian literature in Romania. Since 1994 he has been teaching at the Babeș-Bolyai University. Lászlóffy has published more than thirty volumes of poetry and one novel. He translated the Romanian poets Mircea Dinescu , Ștefan Augustin Doinaș , Aurel Rău, Eugen Jebeleanu and others into Hungarian.

Lászlóffy received various awards, such as the award of the Romanian Writers' Association in 1971 and 1983 and the Romanian Academy in 1974 , and became an officer of the Star of Romania . In Hungary he received the Attila József Prize in 1991 , the Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 1997 and the Kossuth Prize in 1998 . He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts in Budapest and since 2003 a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.

His younger brother Csaba Lászlóffy is also a writer.

Works (selection)

  • represented in: Anthology of New Transylvanian-Hungarian Poetry . Otto Müller, Salzburg, 1974
  • Novellas with telephone numbers . Translated by Martha Szépfalusi-Wanner, Vienna: Edition Mosaic, 1999
  • Hangok a tereken
  • A hetvenes évek
  • Hogy kitudódjék a világ
  • Kőfalon kőszó
  • Felhősödik a mondatokban
  • Héphaisztosz és a Papírrepülő . novel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MTI : Transylvanian Writer Aladár Lászlóffy Dies at 72  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 20, 2009, from kultura.hu, accessed July 9, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kultura.hu  
  2. ^ Obituary , at the Romanian Academy
personal data
SURNAME Lászlóffy, Aladár
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Turda , Romania
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2009
Place of death Budapest