Kálmán Mikszáth

Kálmán Mikszáth was born at Szklabonya on 16 January 1847, into a family of the lesser nobility. He studied law in Pest without obtaining a degree, then turned to journalism. A member of the Liberal Party, he was elected a deputy in 1887 and remained one until his death, for Illyefalva and then for Fogaras. In 1910, during the jubilee of his forty years of writing, his native village took the name Mikszáthfalva; he died in Budapest on 28 May of the same year.

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• Short storiesThe Good People of PalócA jó palócokKálmán Mikszáth · 1882LiteraturePublic domain