Ádám Bodor

The native form of this personal name is Bodor Ádám. This article uses the Western name order.

Ádám Bodor (born in Cluj on February 22, 1936) is an award-winning Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.

Life and writing

He was born in Romania to a staunchly Anti-Communist father and was himself an anti-Communist. In his youth he believed in Transylvanian independence and overthrowing the Communist state. At seventeen he was arrested by the Securitate.[1] After being freed he studied at a Calvinist seminary and began writing. After this he left Romania for Hungary and then spent some time in the West.[2] Several of his works have been adapted to film.

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