Ferenc Talanyi

Ferenc Talanyi (born Ferenc Temlin, Slovene: Franc Talanyi, or Talanji) (23 May 1883 – 9 July 1959) was a Slovene (Prekmurian) writer, journalist, and painter.

Born Ferenc Temlin in Brezovci near Puconci in Hungary, the son of Mihaly Temlin and Katalin Franko, a Lutheran peasant family. He studied catering in Budapest and Germany. Temlin supported the policy of magyarization and changed his family name to Talanyi. He worked as a restaurateur in the Slovene March (Prekmurje), Ormoz and Bad Radkersburg while acting as editor of the Dober pajdas kalendarium.

In 1919 Talanyi supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic. After the communistic dictatorship returned to the Prekmurje. In 1930 arrested, it turned out the communist past. At the time opposed the Magyarization and only went to the Prekmurian-language literature, afterwards only the central Slovene language support. In 1941 briefly again supported the Magyarization. Then joined the communist partisans among the pseudonym Ocka (Papa). At the end of the World War II was captured and 9 years in German prisons was imprisoned. In 1955 in the Pomurski vestnik Talanyi emphasized the communist past.

Talanyi as a turncoat in the most controversial person in the Prekmurje.