Attila József Prize

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The Attila József Prize (József Attila-díj) is a Hungarian literary prize . It was established as a state prize in communist Hungary in 1950 . It is named after the Hungarian poet Attila József (1905–1937).

Before the Second World War, Franz Ferdinand Baumgarten founded the Baumgarten Prize in 1923 , which was considered an important Hungarian literary prize in Hungary under the Horthy regime and was awarded from 1929 to 1944 and after the end of the war from 1946 until 1949. The bourgeois namesake of Jewish origin with the German name was not considered exemplary by the Hungarian Communist Party. Hence the name was given to Attila József , who died in 1937 and was also close to the Communist Party.

Memorial plaque for József Ratkó, on which his József Attila-díj is highlighted, at Ratkó's school in Nyíregyháza (2017)

The price was retained after the political turnaround in Hungary in 1989 and was not touched in the various right-wing conservative governments of Viktor Orbán , while József's statue in Budapest in 2011 has already been put up for discussion by the political right in Hungary.

The prize is awarded annually in spring in several literary categories. The winners are named by a board of trustees. There are many winners who have received the award several times. The prize includes a bronze plaque with the poet's likeness and a (modest) prize money of 200,000 forints (as of 2011). The winners will be reported in the Hungarian press and in the press in neighboring European countries. The awarding of the prize is also used by publishers in marketing their authors. Another prestigious cultural prize in Hungary is the Kossuth Prize , which is also awarded to writers.

List of award winners

See Hungarian Wikipedia hu: József Attila-díjasok listája

literature

  • Susan Leckey (Ed.): The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes . London: Europa Publ., 2002 ISBN 1-85743-146-4
  • Józsefné Magyar: Díjasok és kitüntetettek adattára. 1948-1980 . Kaposvár: Palmiro Togliatti Megyei, 1984
  • Tamásné Csapó: Díjasok és kitüntetettek adattára. 1981/1990 . Kaposvár: Megyei és Városi, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the work of the Board of Trustees, see the report A József Attila-díjról is dönthet Orbán János Dénes , in Magyar Nemzet , March 17, 2016