György Pálóczi Horváth

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In Darkest Hungary (1944)
Khrushchev (German translation, 1960)

György Pálóczi Horváth (born March 20, 1908 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died January 3, 1973 in London ) was a Hungarian-British writer.

Life

György Pálóczi Horváth came from a family of the Hungarian upper class. He studied at the University of Vienna and at Franklin & Marshall College in the USA. He then worked as a journalist at Pesti Napló in Budapest. Pálóczi Horváth became a member of the Communist Party of Hungary (KMP).

During the Second World War , when Hungary was allied with the German Empire, he left Hungary and came to British-controlled Egypt, where he was recruited as an agent for the SOE . At the end of the war he went to London and returned to Hungary in February 1947, where he again joined the Communist Party of Hungary (MKP). He worked for the radio and was licensed to write a political magazine, but was soon accused of being a Western spy and arrested. He was in prison until 1954. He then wrote for the magazine Irodalmi Újság . After the suppression of the Hungarian uprising , he left the country again at the end of 1956 and continued to write in Great Britain for the magazine Irodalmi Újság, which had also gone into exile .

George Pálóczi-Horváth lived with his family in Richmond ever since and wrote nonfiction books on social and political issues in English. His autobiographical book The Undefeated , published in 1959, won the Atlantic Editors' Non-Fiction Prize and the Prix de la Liberté. Pálóczi Horváth published political biographies on Khrushchev and Mao Tse Tung .

Works (selection)

  • Felelés ellen biztosító . Youth book. Budapest: Révai Testvérek Irodalmi Intézet, 1933
  • Isten veletek, Hobókǃ book for young people. Budapest: Révai Testvérek Irodalmi, 1934
  • Utazás a semmibe . Budapest: Világvárosi Regények, 1937
  • Az utolsó pengő . Budapest: Világvárosi Regények, 1937
  • Chamberlain a felelős - Európa két éve . Budapest, 1939
  • Búcsú Európától . Novel. Budapest: Officina, 1939
  • America válaszúton . Budapest: Cserépfalvi Kiadó, 1940
  • Balkan a viharban . Budapest, 1941
  • In Darkest Hungary . Introduction Mihály Károlyi . London: Victor Gollanz, 1944
  • Ezermillió bennszülött a kapuk előtt . Budapest: Hungária Hírlapnyomda, 1948
  • Freud vagy egy illúzió discussed . Budapest, 1948
  • The Undefeated . Autobiography. London: Big Ben, 1958
  • Khrushchev: the road to power . London: Secker & Warburg, 1960
    • Khrushchev . Translation from English Rolf Hellmut Foerster. Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Scheffler, 1960
  • Mao-Tse-tung, emperor of the Blue Ants . London, 1962
    • The lord of the blue ants - Mao Tse-tung . Translation from English Rolf Hellmut Foerster. Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Scheffler, 1962
  • The facts rebel: the future of Russia and the West . London, Secker & Warburg, 1964
    • Facts Rebellion: The Future of Russia and the West . Translation from English Walter Purgleitner. Frankfurt am Main: Scheffler, 1963
  • Youth. Fate of the world. A documentary report from 4 continents . Zurich: Swiss Publishing House, 1965
  • Stalin . Translation from English Jutta Knust, Theodor Knust. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1968
  • The sexual revolution, a global situation report .
    • Sex: overturning taboos . Translation from the English Kurt Reis . Düsseldorf: Diederichs, 1968
  • All the power of youth? : Theses on the generation conflict of our time . Translation from English by Heidrun Stratmann. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1970
  • Youth up in arms . London, 1971
  • From monitor to missile boat: coast defense ships and coastal defense since 1860 . Annapolis, Md .: Naval Institute Press, 1996

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SURNAME Pálóczi Horváth, György
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pálóczi-Horváth, George; Pálóczi-Horváth, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1973
Place of death London