| Géza Szőcs | |
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| Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2 June 2010 |
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| Minister | Miklós Réthelyi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 August 1953 Târgu Mureș, Romania |
| Political party | RMDSZ |
| Profession | poet, politician |
Géza Szőcs (born 21 August 1953) is an ethnic Hungarian poet and politician from Transylvania, Romania, current Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources in Hungary since 2 June 2010.
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He is a son of Romanian-Hungarian writer István Szőcs. He studied until 1979 at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj. On a proposal by András Sütő, he received a scholarship for 1979/80 semester to the University of Vienna.
From 1986 to 1989, after working in the scientific literature seminar of Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Géza Szőcs went into political exile in Switzerland, where he worked in Geneva as a journalist. Between 1989 and 1990 he conducted the Budapest studio of Radio Free Europe. In 1989 he joined the staff of the magazine Magyar Napló of the Hungarian Writers' Association.
In 1990 Szőcs returned back to Cluj and was active in the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, for which he sat from 1990 to 1992 in the Romanian Senate. From 1993 to 2010 he was editor of the magazine in Hungary A Dunánál. He was co-editor of the magazine Magyar Szemle and a member of the supervision of the Hungarian state television Magyar Televízió (MTV).
In May 2010, he was appointed by Viktor Orbán as Secretary of State for Culture in the Ministry of National Resources (Miklós Réthelyi) in the Hungarian government.
Géza Szőcs has five children.