István Lakatos and 1956

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István Lakatos (1927-2002) was a Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winner poet, writer and one of the founding members of Digital Literary Academy (DIA). In 1949 he was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, but between 1949 and 1972 he was unable to have a volume of his poems published. After 1956 he was in prison (until 1959). He was considered an “counter-revolutionary” because of his "anti-regime poems" in the journal called Igazság and because he was a board member of Hungarian Writer’s Association in 1956-57. While in prison he translated Virgil’s Aeneid. I will talk about Lakatos’s literary significance and will analyze Lakatos's poems and essays. After the regime change in 1991 Lakatos was awarded the “1956 Commemorative Medal”.


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Adrienn Pataky is a PhD-candidate in Loránd Eötvös University (PhD Program of General Literary and Cultural Studies) and she is assistant research fellow in MTA-ELTE Association for the General Study of Literature Research Group. She is interested in modern Hungarian lyric, especially sonnets. She is a teacher, a literary columnist and also writes critiques and edits books. She is one of members of the Free Academy of Humanities – Budapest (Voluntary Open University). http://www.aitk.hu/pataky_adrienn/