Tamás Aczél
Hungarian poet, writer, journalist and university professor (1921-1994)
Tamás Aczél (Hungarian: [ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈɒt͡seːl]; 1921–1994) was a Hungarian poet, writer, journalist, translator and university professor.
Early life and education
Tamás Aczél was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (present-day, Hungary) on 16 December 1921 to a Hungarian-Jewish family. Pál Aczél was Aczél's uncle.
Aczél graduated in his hometown in 1939, and subsequently he went to Italy to study commerce and catering (1939–1941). After returning to Hungary, Aczél enrolled at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and earned academic degree in Hungarian and English.
Career
Aczél's first poems were published in 1941. In 1945, Aczél joined the Hungarian Communist Party, and was active member of the Hungarian Writers' Union.
During World War II Aczél was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp.
Aczél was initially favoured by the post-war Hungarian government, he wrote agitational poems and schematic novels, for which he was awarded the Kossuth Prize (1949) and the Stalin Prize (1952).
By 1953 Aczél radically broke with his earlier works; he gave up his agitative poetry and became a leading figure of the literary opposition formed around Imre Nagy, that initiated the dismissal of the Stalinist-Rákosist literary control.
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