Gyula Illyés
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Gyula Illyés (November 2, 1902 - April 15, 1983) was a Hungarian poet and novelist. Born into a poor peasant family, he was educated both in Budapest and in Paris. He was one of the leading népi ("working-class") authors, and someone with strong left-wing convinctions.
During World War II he was associated with the journal Nyugat. After the occupation of Hungary in 1945 he became a member of parliament, withdrawing from public life when the Stalinists rose to power. Later on he made some deals with the Kádárist establishment of Hungary.
In his poetry Illyés was a spokesman for the oppressed peasant class. Greater universality and an appeal for national and individual liberty mark his later work.
[edit] External links
- Illyés in Hunlit, the on-line multilingual database of Hungarian Book Foundation on Hungarian literature
- Bibliographical Handbook of Hungarian Authors by Albert Tezla; online var. Orig. vers. published at The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 1970
- CityPoem 'A Sentence about Tyranny' by Gyula Illyés at Erasmuspc, network for cities and culture
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