Iván Sándor

Iván Sándor

Iván Sándor (born March 11, 1930 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian author.

Life

Sándor grew up in Budapest, in 1944 during the months of the Hungarian deportation of Jews and the Szálasi dictatorship he had to go into hiding . During his studies, he was arrested in 1952 and sentenced to forced labor. In 1956 he was actively involved in the Hungarian uprising . From 1957 he worked as a critic for the magazine "Film, Színház, Muzsika", of which he became editor in 1970. After the reunification he was a board member of the "Hungarian Writers' Association" until 1993. From 1992 to 1996 he was chairman of the “ László Németh Society”. In addition to his journalistic work, Sándor has published thirteen novels.

Sándor has been honored with important Hungarian literary prizes, including the Attila József Prize (1985) and the " Sándor Márai Prize" (2000). In 2005 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize for his life's work .

Carl Lutz

In the autobiographical novel Looking for Traces , Sándor investigates the work of the Swiss Embassy employee Carl Lutz , who in 1944 was able to save some of the Budapest Jews from the Holocaust through his work with shelters and protective passports .

Works in German translation

• Beloved Liv , Roman. Translated from the Hungarian by Timea Tankó . German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24558-6
• Searching for clues: an investigation , novel. Translated from the Hungarian by Katalin Fischer. German Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24722-1
• Hussar in hell . Translated from the Hungarian by György Buda. Nischen Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503345-6-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Iván Sándor in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography at Hunlit