Sándor Weöres

Monument of Weöres in Szombathely

Sándor Weöres (pronunciation: [ ˈʃaːndor ˈvørøʃ ], born June 22, 1913 in Szombathely , † January 22, 1989 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer.

Life

Weöres published his first poems in 1928, when he was 15 years old. From 1932 onwards his works were published by Mihály Babits in the important literary magazine Nyugat . From 1933 to 1938 he studied at the University of Pécs and completed his studies in philosophy and aesthetics with a doctoral thesis with the title A vers születése (Eng. "The Birth of the Poem"). He then worked as a librarian and as a freelance writer.

Weöres' grave in Budapest

Since he rejected the socialist realism propagated by the state authorities and instead wrote poems with a wide range in form and content (partly children's poems, partly poetry with a strong influence of Eastern philosophy and with a focus on myth and nature), he was able from 1949 published very little under the communist government, including A hallgatás tornya ( Eng . "The Tower of Silence") in 1956. When his poem Tűzkút ( Eng . "Fountain of Fire") was published in Paris in 1964 , Weöres also received recognition in Hungary and was allowed to publish freely from now on. For example, Psyché, a collection of letters and poems by a fictional 19th century woman , appeared in 1972. In 1977 he was also responsible for the publication of the anthology of poetry Három veréb hat szemmel .

Awards

1970: Kossuth Prize
1974: Austrian State Prize for European Literature

Works (selection)

Hideg van , poetry, 1934
A kő és az ember , poetry, 1935
Meduza , poetry, 1944
A fogok tornáca , poetry, 1947
Bóbita , poetry, 1955
A hallgatás tornya , poetry, 1956
Tűzkút , poetry, 1964
Merülő Saturnus , poetry, 1968
Psyché , poetry, 1972
Priapus , 2001 (written posthumously, 1950)

German translations

That of Ungern. Poems and five drawings , Suhrkamp 1969, translated by Barbara Frischmuth and Robert Stauffer
Was a nice drawer , children's book publisher 1976, translated by Heinz Kahlau

Web links

Commons : Sándor Weöres - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Sándor Weöres in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica (English)
↑ Sándor Weöres on lexikon.meyers.de (page no longer available)

personal data
SURNAME	Weöres, Sándor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szombathely
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1989
Place of death	Budapest

[Britannica-1] Entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica (English)

[2] Sándor Weöres on lexikon.meyers.de (page no longer available)