Name Lorinc Szabo Education Eotvos Lorand University | Role Poet Children Klari Szabo, Loci Szabo | |
Died October 3, 1957, Jozsefvaros, Budapest, Hungary Books Cricket Song, The 26th Year Parents Ilona Panyiczky, Lorinc Szabo Sr. Similar People Arpad Toth, Milan Fust, Mor Jokai | ||
Miklos Vajda & Lőrinc Szabó feat.Sándor Lukács - Ima A Gyermekekért (ambient mix)
Lőrinc Szabó de Gáborján (Hungarian: gáborjáni Szabó Lőrinc, [ˈgaːborjaːni ˈsɒboː ˈløːrint͡s]; Miskolc, 31 March 1900 – Budapest, 3 October 1957) was a Hungarian poet and literary translator.
Contents
- Miklos Vajda Lrinc Szab featSndor Lukcs Ima A Gyermekekrt ambient mix
- Biography
- Poetry
- Books of poetry
- References
Biography
He was born in Miskolc as the son of an engine driver, Lőrinc Szabó sr., and Ilona Panyiczky. The family moved to Balassagyarmat when he was 3 years old. He attended school in Balassagyarmat and Debrecen. He studied at the ELTE in Budapest where he befriended Mihály Babits. He didn't finish his studies; instead he began to work for the literary periodical Az Est in 1921, shortly after he married Klára Mikes, the daughter of Lajos Mikes. He worked there until 1944. Between 1927 and 1928 he was a founder and editor of the periodical Pandora.
His first published poems appeared in the 1920s in the Nyugat ("The West"). His first book of poetry was published in 1922 under the title Föld, erdő, Isten ("Earth, Forest, God") and received considerable success. He got the Baumgarten Award in 1932, 1937 and 1943. As a translator, he translated several works of Shakespeare (Timon of Athens in 1935, As You Like It in 1938, Macbeth in 1939, Troilus and Cressida in 1948); Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (together with Babits and Árpád Tóth); François Villon's Grand Testament, Molière's L'École des femmes, Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and works of Verlaine, Tyutchev, Pushkin, Krylov, Kleist, Mörike, Nietzsche, George, Rilke, Benn and Weinheber.
He fought in World War II, met Gyula Gömbös and at a literary congress at Lillafüred he emphasized the beauty of war poetry. In 1942 Lőrinc Szabó joined the "Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung" (i.e. European Writers' League) which had been founded by Joseph Goebbels. Today his correspondence with its head secretary Carl Rothe shows their close friendship. Szabó became the speaker of Hungarian section of the European Writers' League after József Nyírő and 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 the Kossuth Award. He died of a heart attack.
Poetry
Several of his poems were written to his children Lóci and Klári, while in other poems he remembers his own childhood.
In 1950 his long-time girlfriend Erzsébet Korzáti committed suicide. His sonnet cycle The 26th Year was written in her memory. it was published in 1957.