József Gáli

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József Gáli (Gyula 10 February 1930 -Budapest, 5 March 1981) József Attila Prize-winning Hungarian writer and translator.

On October 6, 1956, on the reburial of Laszlo Rajk, he presented the drama of Rákosi's personal cult of Szabadsághegy at Attila József Theater in Budapest. Imre Nagy was there as well, in the presentation of one (according to other remarks, a few performances).

He participated in the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence and as a member of the Resistance Group at Péterfy Sándor Street Hospital. On December 5, he was arrested on charges of "counter-revolutionary activity". He was sentenced to death on June 20, 1957. A death sentence for international protests was suspended with his editor and his friend Gyula Obersovszky's death sentence. He was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for a review of his case. He was released on amnesty on April 4, 1961. In 1963 he was only able to find himself in the Theater of History of the National Széchényi Library, where he worked until 1975 retirement.