- Lőrinc Szabó
Lőrinc Szabó de Gáborján (
Miskolc ,March 31 ,1900 –Budapest ,October 3 ,1957 ) was a Hungarian poet and literary translator.Biography
He was born in Miskolc as the son of an engine driver, Lőrinc Szabó sr., and Ilona Panyiczky. The family moved to
Balassagyarmat when he was 3 years old. He attended school in Balassagyarmat andDebrecen . He studied at theELTE inBudapest where he befriendedMihály Babits . He didn't finish his studies; instead he began to work for the literary periodical "Az Est" in 1921, shortly after he married Klára Mikes, the daughter ofLajos Mikes . He worked there until 1944. Between 1927 and 1928 he was a founder and editor of the periodical "Pandora".His first published poems appeared in the 1920s in the "
Nyugat " ("The West"). His first book of poetry was published in 1922 under the title "Föld, erdő, Isten" ("Earth, Forest, God") and received considerable success. He got theBaumgarten Award in 1932, 1937 and 1943. As a translator, he translated several works ofShakespeare ("Timon of Athens " in 1935, "As You Like It " in 1938, "Macbeth " in 1939, "Troilus and Cressida " in 1948);Baudelaire 's "Les Fleurs du mal " (together with Babits andÁrpád Tóth );François Villon 's "Grand Testament ",Molière 's "L'École des femmes ", Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther ", and works of Verlaine, Tyutchev, Pushkin and Krylov.He fought in
World War II , metGyula Gömbös and at a literary congress atLillafüred he emphasized the beauty of war poetry. This led to him being considered right-wing, and because of this, after the war he was left out of cultural life and could publish only translations, not his own works. His importance was recognised only shortly before his death, when he received theKossuth Award . He died of a heart attack.Poetry
Several of his poems were written to his children "Lóci" and "Klári", while in other poems he remembers his own childhood.
In 1950 his long-time girlfriend Erzsébet Korzáti committed suicide. His sonnet cycle "The 26th Year" was written in her memory. it was published in 1957.
Books of poetry
* Föld, erdő, Isten ("Earth, Forest, God", 1922)
* Kalibán ("Caliban", 1923)
* Fény, fény, fény ("Light, Light, Light", 1926)
* A Sátán műremekei ("Masterpieces of Satan", 1926)
* Te meg a világ ("You and the World", 1932)
* Különbéke ("Separate Peace", 1936)
* Harc az ünnepért ("Fight for the Holiday", 1938)
* Régen és most ("Then and Now", 1943)
* Tücsökzene ("Cricket Song", 1947)
* A huszonhatodik év ("The 26th Year", 1957)ources
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