Lajos Zilahy

Lajos Zilahy

Lajos Zilahy (born March 27, 1891 in Nagyszalonta , Austria-Hungary ; died December 1, 1974 in Novi Sad , Serbia ) was a Hungarian author, editor , screenwriter and film director . He is one of the most important Hungarian writers alongside Sándor Márai and Antal Szerb .

Life

Zilahy studied law in Budapest. He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Lviv during World War I and discharged from military service. The first literary works were created in 1916. From 1928 he also dealt with film, several of his plays were filmed internationally. In the 30s he worked as a journalist for various newspapers and was editor of the art magazine Híd (Die Brücke) from 1940 to 1944 . For his own film company Pegazus, which he founded in 1939, he directed several times himself.

With the beginning of the war he increasingly distanced himself from the fascist regime and after the end of the war did not allow himself to be absorbed by the communist system. In 1945 he was appointed a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 1947 he went into exile in the USA in Rhode Island and has since written mainly in English. In the early 1960s he moved back to Europe to Novi Sad, then in Yugoslavia; a planned return to Hungary in 1973 was not permitted. He died in Novi Sad in 1974 and was buried in the Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest .

Works (selection)

• Deadly spring. Zsolnay, 1922
• The soul goes out in 1932
• The love of my ancestor. Pages from a family chronicle. Translated from the Hungarian by Käthe Gaspar. Zsolnay, Berlin / Vienna / Leipzig 1938
• The golden bridge. Translated from the Hungarian by Josef Paul Toth and Georg von Kommerstädt, Toth, Hamburg 1940
• The Dukays. Prentice Hall, New York 1948
• Quiet life. Translated from the Hungarian by Eugen Görcz. Scholle, Vienna 1947
• Two prisoners. Toth, Hamburg 1949
• The angel of anger. Translated from American English by Elisabeth von Arx. Hallwag, 1953
• In the heart of the forest. 1959
• What my heart desires. Translation: Eta Neumann-Veith, Andrea Seidle. Munich: Diana Verlag, 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Lajos Zilahy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of What my heart desires

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• A “felforgató” Zilahy Lajos. Obituary in Cultura Magazin, December 1, 2014 (Hungarian).
• Zilahy, Lajos. Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center (December 27, 2008 memento on WebCite )

1. ↑ Pegazus Film in the Internet Movie Database (English).
2. ↑ Lajos Zilahy in the Internet Movie Database (English) .