György Konrád

György Konrád was born in Berettyóújfalu on 2 April 1933, the son of a Jewish ironmonger. In 1944 his parents were deported to Austria; he and his sister reached Budapest shortly before the deportation of the Jews of their town, and the family was the only one in the community to survive intact. A reader at the publisher Magyar Helikon, then employed in child protection, he turned to urban sociology. Arrested in 1974 and banned from publishing until 1989, he presided over PEN International from 1990 to 1993 and died in Budapest on 13 September 2019.

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• NovelThe Case WorkerA látogatóGyörgy Konrád · 1969Literature