Ervin Lázár

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Ervin Lázár on Vörösmarty tér (Budapest, 1989; Photo: Dániel Kertész)

Ervin Lázár (born May 5, 1936 in Budapest ; † December 22, 2006 there ) was a Hungarian writer and storyteller. He mainly wrote children's books. Lázár was a Kossuth Prize winner and a member of the Digital Literature Academy .

Life

Ervin Lázár grew up in Alsó-Rácegrespuszta in Tolna County , where his family lived until 1951. His father, István Lázár, was the manager of an estate , his mother was Etelka Pentz. He attended school in Rácegrespuszta and later in Sárszentlőrinc . At the age of 10 he switched to the Cistercian high school in Székesfehérvár . After the school was nationalized in 1948, he received private tuition in Sárszentlőrinc. From October 1950 he attended the Garay János grammar school . At first he was refused to attend grammar school due to his father's social background. Only when a relative advocated his acceptance was he allowed to go to school. His parents were considered alien, although after the land reform of 1945 they were poorer than the other residents of the area. In 1951 they had to leave their official residence, after which the family moved to Tüskéspuszta . In 1954, Lázár passed the school leaving examination. He then studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.

In 2004, Ervin Lázár told Kinga Erős in a conversation published in the magazine of the Hungarian Writers' Union Magyar Napló :

“At that time the loosening [of the dictatorship] took place under Imre Nagy , in that wave I came to the university. Actually, even then I felt that I owed a lot of good things to those who were hostile to me. When they leafed through my certificates when I was admitted, there was an excellent certificate from which it emerged that my behavior was poor, grade 2. They asked what the reason was and I told them. "

Original quote:

"Akkoriban jött a Nagy Imre-féle konnyítés, ennek hullámain eljutottam az egyetemre. Tulajdonképpen már ekkor éreztem, hogy a rosszakaróimnak sok jót köszönhetek. Amikor a felvételinél lapozgattak a bizonyítványomban, ott állt egy színjeles bizonyítvány, amelyben szerepelt, hogy magatartás tűrhető, kettes. Rákérdeztek, hogy ennek mi az oka, én pedig elmeséltem ”.

From 1959 to 1963 he wrote for the Pécs evening newspaper Esti Pécsi Napló . In 1961 he graduated from teaching Hungarian. He later worked for the daily Dunántúli Napló and together with Tibor Tüskés for the literary magazine Jelenkor . In 1965 he moved to Budapest, where he got a job as a makeover editor for the literary magazine Élet és Irodalom . Between 1971 and 1989 he was a freelance writer. On October 1, 1989, he became a founding member of the magazine Magyar Fórum ("Hungarian Forum"), where he was an executive for almost a year. In the following years he worked for the newspapers Magyar Napló, Pesti Hírlap and Magyar Nemzet . From 1992 he was an editor at Hitel magazine .

From 1991 to 1994 he was a member of the Magyar Újságírók Országos Szövetségének ("National Association of Hungarian Journalists"). From 1996 he was also a member of the Magyar Írószövetség ("Hungarian Writers' Union "). In 2005, Péter Gárdos made the film A porcelánbaba ("The Porcelain Doll") based on three of Lázár's novellas .

Ervin Lázár died in December 2006 in Budapest, where he was buried in the Farkasréti temető cemetery.

Lázár's grave in Budapest ( Farkasréti temető : 7/4.)

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Ervin Lázár is best known for his fairy tales. Most of his inspiration came from his childhood. Lázár's texts were often edited for radio plays , which are popular with both children and adults. The language in his works is individual and playful.

His first novella with the title Jelenkor ("Present") appeared in 1958. In 1964 the volume A kisfiú meg az oroszlánok ("The Little Boy and the Lions") with illustrations by László Réber , who from then on regularly with the writer, was published worked together.

Lázár's only novel, A fehér tigris (“The White Tiger”), was published in 1971. Three years later he was awarded the international Andersen diploma for the fairy tale story Berzsián és Dideki published in 1979 . In 1986 he won first prize in the annual radio play competition of the Magyar Rádió with the radio play Ó be szép az élet, s minden más madár .

List of Lázár's works:

  • There are lions on Peti's farm , illustrated by László Réber. Translated from d. Hungarian. by Ita Szent-Iványi, Kinderbuchverlag Berlin , 1969, ( A kisfiú meg az oroszlánok 1964)
  • Csonkacsütörtök (1966)
  • Egy lapát szén Nellikének (1969)
  • The colorful blackbird , with drawing. by László Réber, from d. Hungarian. transfer by Henriette Schade-Engl., Dt. Arranged by Barbara Schweizer, Budapest, Corvina-Verlag, 1972, ( A nagyravágyó feketerigó )
  • Buddha szomorú (1973)
  • A fehér tigris (novel, 1971)
  • A Hétfejű Tündér (fairy tale, 1973)
  • Bersian and Meister Schräubchen, from d. Hungarian. by Hans Skirecki, Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, 1983 ( Berzsián és Dideki , Märchen, 1979)
  • Gyere haza, Mikkamakka (children's novel, 1980)
  • A Masoko Köztársaság (1981)
  • Arnica, the duck princess , from d. Hungarian. by Hans Skirecki, illustrated by László Réber, children's book publisher Berlin, 1988 ( Szegény Dzsoni és Árnika , Märchen, 1981)
  • A négyszögletű kerek erdő (children's novel, 1985)
  • Bab Berci kalandjai (children's novel, 1989)
  • A Franka cirkusz (radio play, 1990)
  • A manógyár (fairy tale, 1994)
  • Hét szeretőm ( short story, 1994)
  • Csillagmajor ( short story, 1996)
  • Kisangyal ( short story, 1997)
  • Hapci király (fairy tale, 1998)
  • Lehel kürtje (fairy tale)

Awards

  • Attila József Prize , 1974
  • Művészeti Alap Irodalmi Díja (1980)
  • Állami Ifjúsági Díj ("State Youth Prize", 1981)
  • Hans Christian Andersen Diploma (1982)
  • Év Könyve jutalom ("Book of the Year" 1986)
  • Déry Tibor-jutalom (" Tibor Déry Prize", 1990)
  • IBBY Prize (1990)
  • Soros-életműdíj ( Tivadar Soros Life Prize, 1990)
  • MSZOSZ-díj ("Prize of the Hungarian Trade Union Confederation", 1995)
  • Kossuth Prize (1996)
  • Pro Literatura (1999)
  • Prima Primissima (2005)

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The grading scale in the Hungarian school system ranges from 1 to 5, with a 5 being the best grade and a 1 being the worst. Grade 2 corresponds roughly to the grade “insufficient” in German.
  2. ↑ Beszélgetés Lázár Ervinnel ( Hungarian ) Magyar Naplo. Archived from the original on April 25, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Homepage of the film ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Imdb entry  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aporcelanbaba.hu
personal data
SURNAME Lázár, Ervin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2006
Place of death Budapest