Lőrinc Szabó
Lőrinc Szabó de Gáborján(Hungarian:gáborjáni Szabó Lőrinc[ˈɡaːborjaːniˈsɒboːˈløːrint͡s];Miskolc,31 March 1900 –Budapest,3 October 1957) was aHungarianpoet and literary translator.
Biography[edit]
He was born in Miskolc as the son of an engine driver, Lőrinc Szabó sr., and Ilona Panyiczky. The family moved toBalassagyarmatwhen he was 3 years old. He attended school in Balassagyarmat andDebrecen.He studied at theELTEinBudapestwhere he befriendedMihály Babits.He didn't finish his studies; instead he began to work for the literary periodicalAz Estin 1921, shortly after he married Klára Mikes, the daughter ofLajos Mikes.He worked there until 1944. Between 1927 and 1928 he was a founder and editor of the periodicalPandora.
His first published poems appeared in the 1920s in theNyugat( "The West" ). His first book of poetry was published in 1922 under the titleFöld, erdő, Isten( "Earth, Forest, God" ) and received considerable success. He got theBaumgarten Awardin 1932, 1937 and 1943. As a translator, he translated several works ofShakespeare(Timon of Athensin 1935,As You Like Itin 1938,Macbethin 1939,Troilus and Cressidain 1948);Coleridge'sAncient MarinerandKubla Khan,Baudelaire'sLes Fleurs du mal(together with Babits andÁrpád Tóth);François Villon'sGrand Testament,Molière'sL'École des femmes,Goethe'sThe Sorrows of Young Werther,Thomas Hardy'sTess of the d'Urbervilles,and works ofVerlaine,Tyutchev,Pushkin,Krylov,Kleist,Mörike,Nietzsche,George,Rilke,BennandWeinheber.
He fought inWorld War II,metGyula Gömbösand at a literary congress atLillafüredhe emphasized the beauty of war poetry. In 1942 Lőrinc Szabó joined the "Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung"(i.e.European Writers' League) which had been founded byJoseph Goebbels.[1]Today his correspondence with its head secretaryCarl Rotheshows their close friendship. Szabó became the speaker of Hungarian section of the European Writers' League afterJózsef Nyírőand published articles in the organisation's magazine "Europäische Literatur"(i.e.European Literature).
This led to him being considered right-wing, and because of this, after the war he was left out of cultural life and could publish only translations, not his own works. His importance was recognised only shortly before his death, when he received theKossuth Prize.He died of a heart attack.
Poetry[edit]
Several of his poems were written to his childrenLóciandKlári,while in other poems he remembers his own childhood.
In 1950 his long-time girlfriend Erzsébet Korzáti died by suicide. His sonnet cycleThe 26th Yearwas written in her memory. it was published in 1957.
Books of poetry[edit]
- Föld, erdő, Isten (Earth, Forest, God,1922)
- Kalibán (Caliban,1923)
- Fény, fény, fény (Light, Light, Light,1926)
- A Sátán műremekei (Masterpieces of Satan,1926)
- Te meg a világ (You and the World,1932)
- Különbéke (Separate Peace,1936)
- Harc az ünnepért (Fight for the Holiday,1938)
- Régen és most (Then and Now,1943)
- Tücsökzene (Cricket Song,1947)
- A huszonhatodik év (The 26th Year,1957)
References[edit]
- ^Frank-Rutger Hausmann(2004)"Dichte, Dichter, tage nicht!" – Die Europäische Schriftsteller-Vereinigung in Weimar 1941–1948.ISBN3-465-03295-0
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