István Eörsi

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Istvan Eorsi, originally called Schleiffer Ede ( Budapest , 1931 . June 16 - Budapest , 2005 . October 13 ) Kossuth - and József Attila Prize-winning writer, poet, translator and journalist.

Mátyás Eörsi, a politician's uncle, György Lukács, a student, then a translator.

Pál Schleiffer and Teréz Eörsi were born almost a decade after the birth of György Eörsi, a scholar-lawyer born on 19 September 1922. Like his brother, he was stalinist in his youth and wrote a glorious poem on the occasion of Stalin's death. From 1953 he became a reformer, he was the follower of Imre Nagy. In the 1956 revolution he was actively involved, mainly in journalism.

In December 1956 he was sentenced to eight years in prison, but in 1960 he was sentenced to death. On August 20, he received an amnesty. 1967 he lived mainly on translations, but he had a contract with Life and Literature.

From 1977 to 1982 he was a dramaturge at the Csiky Gergely Theater in Kaposvár, but was dismissed for his opposition behavior. From then on he was a freelance writer. 1983 - 1986 in West Berlin lived. In 1989 he returned to Kaposvár. After the regime change, the SZDSZ was a member until 2004 when he quit the party's protest. He was a regular author of the magazines Life and Literature, Speaker and Magyar Orange.