János Rózsás

János Rózsás ( born August 6, 1926 in Budapest, † November 2, 2012 in Nagykanizsa ) was a Hungarian writer.

Biography

János Rózsás was born in a simple working-class family. He already had to contribute as a 14- year-old to support the family. In the fall of 1944 he was called up for military service and came in December in Soviet captivity. Only after Stalin's death, the end of 1953, he could return to his homeland.

The following year, he started a family and there were born to him two sons and a daughter. He worked as an accountant and later as interpreters. Subsequently he graduated from high school. He wrote his memoirs, immediately after his return from the Soviet Union down, but in Hungary they appeared only after the fall of the, iron curtain ' around the year 1990. He was a member of the Hungarian Writers' Association, received high state awards, including the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. He was an honorary citizen of the city and the country Nagykanizsa Zala county in Hungary.

Works (selection)

• Sister Dusja. An invigorating sunbeam in Siberia. Translated by László Rózsás, Gryphon -Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-937800-52-2.