Miklós Haraszti

Miklós Haraszti ( born January 2, 1945 in Jerusalem) is a Hungarian writer, dissident, journalist and politician.

Life

Miklós Haraszti studied philosophy and literature at the University of Budapest, and the 1976 co-founder of the Hungarian opposition movement. 1981-1989 he worked as an editor of the Hungarian underground magazine Beszélő, he was co-author of various explanations of Eastern European dissidents on human rights violations. In 1990, he represented the SZDSZ at the "round table " of the Hungarian Revolution and was a member of the first legislature of the free Hungarian Parliament.

Miklós Haraszti was from March 2004 to March 2010 for ( the maximum allowed ) two-term OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

He is currently Adjunct Professor at the School of International & Public Affairs at Columbia Law School in New York.

Works

  • Költők, Dalok, forradalmak, Zenemükiadó, Budapest 1969.
  • Piece rate. Translation Georg Sallay, foreword Heinrich Böll, Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin, 1975, in Hungarian: Darabbér, Paris: Magyar füzetek Kiadása, 1980
  • L' Artiste d'Etat de la censure en pays Socialiste, Paris: Fayard, 1983, in German: The state artist. Translation Molli Sauer, Red Book Verlag, Berlin, 1984, in Hungarian A cenzura esztétikája, 1986.
  • The Velvet Prison: artists under state socialism, New York: Basic Books, 1987.
  • Kesei bevezetés a Kádár battered during 1980 /1990.
  • The Handshake Tradition: A Decade of Consensus Politics Liberal Bears Fruit in Hungary - But What Next? In: Sorin Antohi, Vladimir Tismaneanu (ed.): Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath. Budapest 2000, pp. 272-279.
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