István Szilágyi (writer)
István Szilágyi (born October 10, 1938 in Cluj , Romania ) is a Romanian writer .
Life
Szilágyi was born the son of a tanner . The family belongs to the Hungarian minority in Romania . He attended middle school in Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozsvár) and then worked as a boilermaker and machine fitter . After studying law from 1958 to 1963 , he worked in the Hungarian language literary magazine UTUNK . In 1968 he took over the position of deputy editor-in-chief there. He published his first literary works in 1960.
Honors
In 1975 his novel Stones Falling into Drying Wells was awarded the Romanian Writers' Union Prize.
Works
- Sorskovács , dt. Destiny smith , 1964
- Ezen a csillagon , German on this star , 1966
- Üllő, dobszó, harang , German anvil, drum, bell , 1968
- Jámbor vadak , German pious savages , 1971
- Kő hull apadó kútba , English stones fall into drying wells , 1975
- Agancsbozót , 1990
- Hollóidő , 2001
- Bolygó tüzek , 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography in Stones fall into drying wells. Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1982.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szilágyi, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj |