Lőrinc Szabó

Lőrinc Szabó was born in Miskolc on 31 March 1900, the son of a locomotive mechanic. Mobilised in 1918, he enrolled in mechanical engineering in Budapest, then switched to literature. Babits introduced him to literary life and housed him for a time in his own home. Married in 1921, he worked for the newspapers of the Az Est group and had a long affair with his wife's best friend. Subjected after 1945 to a purge procedure from which he emerged cleared, he lived mainly on translations, received the Kossuth Prize and died in Budapest on 3 October 1957.

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• PoetryTe meg a világLőrinc Szabó · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature