Béla Vihar

Béla Vihar
Béla Vihar
	Béla Vihar with his daughter, Judit Vihar in 1965
Born	23 May 1908; Hajdúnánás, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	24 November 1978 (aged 70); Budapest, Hungary
Resting place	Kozma Street Cemetery
Occupation	poet; journalist; writer; teacher
Language	Hungarian
Nationality	Hungarian
Period	1924–1978
Notable works	Yellow Book, Facts of the Wartime Sufferings of Hungarian Jewry
Notable awards	Attila József Prize
Spouse	Magda Widder (1915–2002)
Children	Judit Vihar; Gábor Vihar (1948–1975)

Béla Vihar (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈvihɒr]) (23 May 1908 – 24 November 1978) was a Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and teacher. He is known for his book entitled "Yellow Book, Facts of the Wartime Sufferings of Hungarian Jewry" which was the first documentary book about The Holocaust in the world. His famous poem, "A Soldier walking in the snow" (Egy katona megy a hóban, translated by László Tehel) commemorates all the soldiers who lost their lives in war.

Biography and career

Young Poet

Béla Vihar was born on 23 May 1908 in Hajdúnánás. His wife was Magda Widder, the daughter of painter Félix Bódog Widder, and their daughter was Judit Vihar.[1]

His poems were published in English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Hebrew, Croatian, German, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Spanish and Slovak languages. In the 1970s his radio drama "Der Fremde. Hörspiel – Ballade" (The Stranger. Radio Drama – Ballad) was a great success in Germany.

We two, alone:
We are two at the birth.
We are two in love, lonely
at the time of death[2]

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References

"Béla Vihar". Our Family History. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
"Hungarian Haiku" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2017.

Awards and honors

Attila József Prize – 1966

Bibliography

"Vihar Béla" (PDF) (in Hungarian). Kaláka. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

Selected works

Books

Vihar, Béla (1945). Yellow Book, Facts of the Wartime Sufferings of Hungarian Jewry. São Paulo. Budapest: Hechaluc. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

Poems

Út önmagadtól (1933)
A szerelem születése (1958)
Baráti asztal (1960)
Önarckép 1962 (1962)
A négy felelet (1965)
Kígyóének (1970)
Párbeszéd az idővel (1968)
Küzdelem az angyallal (1973)
Szamárháton (1976)
Egy katona megy a hóban (1978)
Az alkonyat kapujában (1980)
Elröppent lakodalom (1984)
Szíjak között (ed. Judit Vihar). Széphalom Könyvműhely, Budapest. 1998. (Disclosed: Among Phylacteries)

External links

Media related to Béla Vihar at Wikimedia Commons

"Seed of Sarah, Memoirs of a Survivor". University of Illinois Press. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

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[1] "Béla Vihar". Our Family History. Retrieved 13 February 2017.

[2] "Hungarian Haiku" (PDF). Retrieved 16 February 2017.