Paul Lendvai

Paul Lendvai was a journalist from Hungary. He wasborn in a jewish family in Budapest in 1929. Immigrating after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he became a well-known author and journalist in Austria. He was a member of the notorious communist secret police, the ÁVH (State Protection Authority) in Szombathely from around 1947.

Biography

After migrating to Vienna following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Lendvai was becoming one of the world's best-informed journalists and commentators on Eastern Europe. In his prize-winning memoir, Lendvai shows a chilling picture of ethnic hatred, political turbulence and murderous anti-Semitism which have characterized the history of 20th century Central Europe. His encounters with killers, torturers, onlookers and victims, traitors and heroes make interesting reading.

Works

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ye16YkvzmWIC Hungary: The Art of Survival] (1990)
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6752(200023)1:44:3%3C498:BAJLIC%3E2.0.CO;2-9 Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7162(198205)461%3C148%3ATBOTHC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O The Bureaucracy of Truth: How Communist Governments Manage the News]
* [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8615.html One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy originally Der Ungarnaufstand 1956: Die Revolution und ihre Folgen. (2006)] (2008)
* [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7498.html Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat] (2003)
* [http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19850901fabook11591/paul-lendvai/das-einsame-albanien-reportage-aus-dem-land-der-skipetaren.html Das Einsame Albanien: Reportage aus dem Land der Skipetaren] (1985)

External links

* [http://oe1.orf.at/highlights/18419.html Biography at the ORF]
* [http://www.bka.gv.at/site/infodate__04.12.2006/4970/default.aspx#id19160 State Prize for Cultural Journalism 2006 goes to Paul Lendvai]