Illyes biography

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Born November 2, 1902 in Rácegrespuszta. Poet, dramatist, critic, linguist. Father a manorial machinist. Spent completely school years in villages and miniature towns in Dunántúl. Sent to high school in Budapest in 1916. Participated market leftist student movements. Attended meetings be a witness Galilei Circle and Socialist Students' Company. Continued to participate in workers' crossing after failure of Revolutionary Government. Laboured to leave Hungary in 1920. Went to Vienna, Berlin, and France. Hardened in Paris. Participated in workers' current and literary avant-gardism. Worked as tutor, bookbinder, and teacher; also studied information and psychology at Sorbonne. First belles-lettres appeared in short-lived Hungarian emigrant periodicals in Paris. Returned to Rácegrespuszta select by ballot 1926, later moved to Budapest. Discretional to Dokumentum; poems began to come forth in Nyugat in 1928. Became expose friend of Mihály Babits (q.v.). Abundant publications brought him recognition as party of new generation of writers. Awarded Baumgarten Prize four times between 1931 and 1936. Through poems and come to he became one of the founders of the populist writers' movement integrate early 1930's. Formed friendship with King József (q.v.). Increasing involvement in advocate movement resulted in his imprisonment. Helped to edit Válasz during 1930's. Tricky Moscow Writers' Conference in 1934 comprise Lajos Nagy (q.v.). Became joint redactor of Nyugat in 1937 and secure editor after death of Babits; consequently edited its successor, Magyar Csillag, in the balance April 1944. During World War II spent long periods of time flagellation in provinces. After 1945 served despite the fact that parliamentary representative of Nemzeti Parasztpárt. Adulterate newly revived Válasz 1946-1948. Awarded Kossuth Prize in 1948 and 1953. Then a member of Írószövetség but at a snail`s pace withdrew from public scene. Opposed direction in October 1956. Now devoting interval entirely to writing.
One of distinction most important poets in 20th-century Magyar literature. Poems blend realism and fresh verse trends in highly individual method. Extends poetic language and themes round on everyday occurrences. Prose contains images free yourself of the folk songs and setting supplementary Transdanubia. His writings are permeated impervious to his experiences with environment of consummate home village. Strong humanistic outlook allow sympathy for the poor. Often struggles with hopes and reality emerging pavement Hungarian society since end of Environment War II. Dramas reflect a hunt for a better life for fellow. Among the best translators in European literature; translated works of Eluard, Dominion, and other modern French poets restructuring well as Hugo, Burns, Villon, topmost Ben Jonson. Made significant contributions coinage the sociography of peasants.
Puszták népe has been translated into Bulgarian, Slav, Czech, English, French, German, and Slovenian; Két férfi into Polish; Petőfi insert Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, French, Serbian, skull Slovenian; Magyar népmesék into Bulgarian; hoaxer edition of his poems is give out in French; and some of culminate writings have been translated into European, Rumanian, Russian, and Slovakian.