Lőrinc Szabó

Lőrinc Szabó ( born March 31, 1900 in Miskolc, † October 3, 1957 in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet and translator. He is one of the major poets of modern Hungarian literature.

Biography

Lőrinc Szabó was born in Miskolc, the son of Ilona Panyiczky and the engineer Lőrinc Szabó.

In its third year the family moved to Balassaqyarmat. There and in Debrecen he went to school. Szabó studied philology at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. There he became friends with the poet Mihály Babits, who promoted him. He broke off his studies and began in 1921 for the magazine " Az Est " to work shortly after he had married Klára Mikes, the daughter of Lajos Mikes.

Between 1927 and 1928 he was the founder and editor of the short-lived magazine " Pandora" and worked for the newspaper " Pesti Napló " ( Pest Tageblatt).

Szabó was a well-attended the German - Hungarian Society and was often invited by its director Julius Farkas readings.

In 1942, when the Hungarian Ministry of Culture gave him the order to travel to the Weimar poets meeting, Szabó met the German writer and cultural functionary Carl Rothe know. Today, the obtained correspondence from his friendship with Carl Rothe, who later became Secretary General of the European founded in 1941 Writers Association ( ESV ) testifies. The European Writers' Association to replace the PEN Club in the German -dominated part of Europe. Lőrinc Szabó was a member, and finally to the Hungarian József Nyírő spokesman for the ESV. Szabó has also published articles in the Journal of the ESV, " European literature ", such as the essay Maifestisches countryside idyll in December 1942.

Because of its cultural collaboration with the Germans Szabó was accused in 1945 by the new communist authorities a fascist attitude and brought charges against him, and he could henceforth not publish own works, but only translations. Shortly before his death, his literary importance was recognized again, and he was awarded the Kossuth Prize.

Lőrinc Szabó died on 3 October 1957 in Budapest.

Work

Szabó's first poetic publications have appeared in the 1920s in the journal " Nyugat ". His first anthology he published in 1922 under the name Föld, erdő, Isten (soil, forest, God) and thus had considerable success.

In the 1920s and 1930s he was one of the innovators of Hungarian poetry and was regarded in the 1920s as a leading Hungarian poet, a master of poetic forms, and the study. Yet his subjects spanned a wide arc, ranging from the description of nature to the analysis of consciousness and the modern daily life. In the years 1932, 1937 and 1943, he was awarded the Baumgarten Prize.

A number of his poems wrote Szabó for his children loci and Klári. When his long -term lover Erzsébet Korzáti in 1950 chose to commit suicide, he wrote in her memory the sonnet cycle The twenty-sixth year.

Szabó translated also in a congenial manner, a plurality of poets - including Villon, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Moerike, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, George, Rilke, Benn, wine taster, and others.

Lőrinc Szabó 's 1998 posthumous member of the " Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia " ( Digital Literary Academy ) since the year of its foundation.

Publications

• Föld, Erdő, Isten (soil, forest, God ), 1922
• Caliban, 1923
• Fény, fény, fény, ( light, light, light ), 1926
• A műremekei Satan ( Satan ' masterpieces ), 1926
• Te meg a világ ( You and the World ), 1932
• Különbéke ( Special Peace ), 1936
• Harc az ünnepért ( struggle for the festival ), 1938
• ReGen most ( Then and Now ), 1943
• Tücsökzene ( BBQ Music ), 1947
• A huszonhatodik év ( The twenty-sixth year ), 1957

Fonts on German

• Hungarian seals, translated by Ladislaus Szemere, 1935
• New Hungarian poetry, translated by Frederick Lam (1881-1955), Ruszkabányai Verlag, 1942
• Maifestisches countryside idyll, European Literature, 8th edition, December 1942
• The twenty-sixth year, translated by Guenther Deicke, Corvina Kiadó Budapest 1982