Ferenc Talányi
| Ferenc Talányi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ferenc Temlin May 23, 1883 Brezovci |
| Died | July 9, 1959 (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, and painter |
Ferenc Talányi (born Ferenc Temlin, Slovene: Franc Talanyi, or Talanji) (23 May 1883 – 9 July 1959) was a Slovene writer, journalist, and painter from Prekmurje.
Biography
Talányi was born Ferenc Temlin, in Brezovci, near Puconci in Hungary. He is the son of Mihály Temlin and Katalin Frankó, both Lutheran peasant. He studied the catering trade in Budapest, and later in Germany. Temlin supported the policy of Magyarization and changed his surname to Talányi. He worked as a restaurateur in the Slovene March (Prekmurje), in Ormož, and in Bad Radkersburg, while also working as editor of the almanac Dober pajdás kalendárium.
In 1919, Talányi supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic and was even a member of the communist party. He is arrested in 1930; the region was now under Yugoslav rule, and his communist past played against him. He opposed the Magyarization for a time and only supported literature in the Prekmurje dialect, and afterwards the central Slovene language. In 1941, he briefly supported the Magyarization but then joined the communist partisans under the pseudonym Očka (Papa). He was captured at the end of World War II and was imprisonned for 9 years in German prisons. In 1955, he published in the Pomurski vestnik in which Talányi emphasized his the communist past. He died in 1959
Talányi is one of the most controversial personality from the Prekmurje region.