Lajos Nagy (writer)
Lajos Nagy (5 February 1883 - 28 October 1954) was a Hungarian writer.[1] His work covered a number of genres including travel literature.[2] "He came up with his brief, humoristic stories about animals in the beginning of the 1920s and in 1922 a collection of these short humoresques was published under the title Nonsensical Natural History (Képtelen természetrajz)."[3] He joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1945.
Awards
- Baumgarten Prize (1932, 1935 and 1938)
- Kossuth Prize (1948)
Selected works
- Három magyar város (Three Hungarian towns) (1933)
- Kiskunhalom (1934)
gollark: Ah, just one of those odd things where the units come out interestingly.
gollark: How come Isp is in seconds anyway?
gollark: That sounds like quite a lot.
gollark: You can't really have powerful reaction drives which are safe, antimatter or not.
gollark: We have always been at war with Eurasia.
References
- "Nagy Lajos" (in Hungarian). Hungarian biographical lexicon. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
- Wendy Bracewell (2009). Orientations: An Anthology of East European Travel Writing, Ca. 1550-2000. Central European University Press. pp. 251–252. ISBN 978-963-9776-10-4.
- Mercs, István. 2017. “A lábatlan ember például egyet se botlik...” Nagy Lajos Képtelen természetrajz című művéről. [‘A Legless Man, for Instance, Stumbles Not at All...’ An Essay on Lajos Nagy’s Volume, Entitled Nonsensical Natural History.] Certamen IV: 149-156.
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