Mihály Babits
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| Spouse | Ilona Tanner (pen name: Sophie Török) |
| Relatives | Mother: Auróra Kelemen Father: Mihály Babits |
Mihály Babits (Hungarian: [ˈmihaːj ˈbɒbit͡ʃ]; 26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological problems.[1]
Biography
Babits was born in
(1912–18).His reputation for his poems in the literary life started in 1908.
He made a trip to Italy in the same year, which made him interested in Dante; he made several other trips in later years. This experience led him to translate Dante's Divine Comedy (Hell, 1913, Purgatory, 1920, and Paradise, 1923).
Briefly after the
In 1911, he became a staff writer on the magazine Nyugat.
Babits' 1918 novel The Nightmare (also known as King's Stork) is a
In 1921 married Ilona Tanner, who later published poetry under the name Sophie Török. Two years later he moved to Esztergom. In 1927 he became a member of the "Kisfaludy Társaság" (Kisfaludy Society) and in the same year he was made a trustee of the Baumgarten Prize.
He became the editor-in-chief of Nyugat in 1929 (sharing the role until 1933 with Zsigmond Móricz), a position he held until his death.
In 1937, he was diagnosed as having laryngeal cancer. He died in Budapest in 1941.
Work
Babits is best known for his
- 1988: 21 Poems (21 Vers), translated by István Tótfalusi (Maecenas, 1994).
Notes
- OCLC 11814265.
- ^ "The Nightmare" by Franz Rottensteiner in Frank N. Magill, ed. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, Vol 3. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, Inc., 1983. pp. 1121-1123.
- ^ "Elza Pilota, vagy a tokeletes tarsadalom " by Péter Kuczka.
In Frank N. Magill, ed. Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Vol. 2. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Salem Press, 1979. (pp. 708-711). ISBN 0-89356-194-0
External links
- Works by Mihály Babits at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Mihály Babits at Internet Archive
- His poem The Danaids in English
- George F. Cushing: Mihály Babits: "All Great Poets Are Decadent"
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