Ádám Bodor

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

Life and writing

Bodor 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.[1] At seventeen he was arrested by the Securitate.[2] 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.[3] Several of his works have been adapted to film.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2014/adam-bodor?set_language=en
  2. ↑ The Columbia literary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 by Harold B. Segel, pgs 185 and 186
  3. ↑ World Literature Today, Volume 76, No. 2
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