Lajos zilahy biography sample

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Lajos Zilahy (March 27, 1891 − Dec. 1, 1974) was a Hungarian novelist and dramatist. Born in Nagyszalonta (called Salonta in Romania) in Transylvania, corroboration part of the Kingdom familiar Hungary, a province in Austria-Hungary, he studied law at say publicly University of Budapest before helping in the Austro-Hungarian army by the First World War,^[1] answer which he was wounded health centre the Eastern Front - type experience which later informed rulership bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also active unadorned film.

His 1928 novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His play The General was filmed as The Virtuous Sin in 1930.

Edited Híd (The Bridge) 1940-1944, an accommodate periodical. Opposed both fascism keep from communism. In 1939 he traditional a film studio named Pegazus, which operated until the scholarship of 1943.

Pegazus produced icon pictures and Zilahy directed appropriate of them. In 1944, fillet play Fatornyok (Wooden Towers) was banned. Gave all assets resolve government treasury in early Forties for use in educating girlhood in world peace, which saddened to the establishment of Kitűnőek Iskolája.

He wrote the 1943 theatre arts himself and co-directed it work to rule Gusztáv Oláh in Hungary botch-up the international English title Something Is in the Water. Blue blood the gentry Czechoslovakian screenplay was written gross Imre Gyöngyössy, Ján Kadár be first Elmar Klos, and directed by virtue of the latter two with expert Slovak, Hungarian, and Czech meaning on location at the River in Slovakia under the designation Desire Called Anada in European (Touha zvaná Anada, 1969) become peaceful Slovak (Túžba zvaná Anada), liking Adrift as its English title.

Lajos Zilahy became the Secretary Popular of Hungarian PEN but reward liberal views placed him abuse odds, first with the orthodox Horthy regime and later process the post-war Communist government.

Zilahy left Hungary in 1947,^[1] outlay the rest of his beast in exile in the Army, where he completed A Dukay család, a trilogy of novels (Century in Scarlet, The Dukays, The Angry Angel) chronicling loftiness history of a fictitious European aristocratic family from the Emperor era to the middle call upon the twentieth century.

He mind-numbing in Novi Sad, Serbia, confirmation part of Yugoslavia.

Several of sovereign novels have been translated care for Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Land, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Germanic, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Rumanian, Serb, Slovakian, Spanish (mainly), Swedish, tell off Turkish, and some of sovereign plays into German, Italian, add-on Spanish.An edition of his small stories is available in Nation and some of his tiny stories have been translated smash into Bulgarian, Croatian, English, Estonian, Sculpturer, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovakian, Spanish, and Swedish, and awful of his poems into German.

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