- Sándor Kányádi
Sándor Kányádi (born 1929) is a Romanian poet and translator, one of the most famous contemporary Hungarian-language poets today.
Biography
Born in
Porumbenii Mari ("Nagygalambfalva") a small village inTransylvania to a family of Hungarian farmers, he moved toCluj-Napoca ("Kolozsvár") in 1950. Nowadays, he spends his time in bothBudapest and his countryside cottage in the Transylvanian countryside.Kányádi graduated from Bólyai University with a degree in
philosophy and became a teacher of Hungarian language and literature. He published his first volume of poetry in 1955 while an assistant editor and frequent contributor for severalliterary magazine s, including poems to children's magazines that are still very popular today. His translations are also very popular and include Saxon andYiddish folk poetry, contemporary Romanian poetry, and major German and French poets. He also gave several literary talks abroad during the 1960s and 1970s to Hungarian communities inWestern Europe ,Scandinavia ,North America , andSouth America .He has been active in political issues throughout the years, as shown in his numerous works relating to the oppression of the Transylvanian Hungarian minority throughout the years. In 1987 the Romanian Communist government refused him a passport to visit an international poets' conference in
Rotterdam , which resulted in his resignation from theRomanian Writers' Union out of protest.Awards
He is the recipient of many awards, such as the Poetry Prize of the Romanian Writers' Union and the
Kossuth Prize , theHerder Prize inVienna in 1995, and theCentral European Time Millennium Prize .External links
* [http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/lic/autor.asp?paras=/lg;4/aut_id;16572/ Biographical information]
* [http://www.traktor.cz/twisted/kanyadi.html Another biographical site, with more information on works]
* [http://prague.tv/articles/art-and-culture/books3 Travis Jeppesen on Kanyadi's "Dancing Embers"]
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