Péter Nádas

Péter Nádas was born in Budapest on 14 October 1942 into a Jewish family; after 1945 his parents became Communist officials. He survived the siege of Budapest with his mother, lost her as a teenager, then his father, who took his own life in 1958. Placed under the guardianship of an aunt, he learned photography, studied journalism and worked as a photographer and journalist, before living by his pen from 1969. He settled in 1984 in Gombosszeg, in western Hungary, and died there on 26 August 2026.

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• NovelA Book of MemoriesEmlékiratok könyvePéter Nádas · 1986Literature