Sándor Kányádi
Sándor Kányádi | |
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Born | Porumbeni, Romania | 10 May 1929
Died | 20 June 2018 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 89)
Occupation | poet |
Nationality | Hungarian |
Citizenship | Romanian |
Notable works | "In Contemporary Tense" |
Notable awards | Kossuth Prize Herder Prize |
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Sándor Kányádi (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃaːndor ˈkaːɲaːdi]; 10 May 1929 – 20 June 2018) was a Hungarian poet and translator from the region of Transylvania, Romania. He was one of the most famous and beloved contemporary Hungarian poets. He was a major contributor to Hungarian children's literature. His works have been translated into English, Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German, French, Romanian and Portuguese. [1]
Biography
He was born in
Porumbenii Mari (Hungarian: Nagygalambfalva), a small Hungarian village in the region of Transylvania, to a family of Hungarian farmers. He was educated in the nearby town of Odorheiu-Secuiesc (Hungarian: Székelyudvarhely). Present-day Tamási Áron Gimnázium was his alma mater. He moved to Cluj in 1950. Nowadays, he split his time between Budapest
and his cottage in the Transylvanian countryside.
Kányádi graduated from
German and French
poets. He also gave several literary talks abroad during the 1960s and 1970s to Hungarian communities in Western Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and South America.
He was active in political issues throughout the years, as shown in his numerous works relating to the oppression of the
Romanian Writers' Union out of protest. [2]
Awards
He garnered more than 30 awards and honors, among others:
- Kossuth Prize, Budapest, 1993
- Poetry Prize of the Romanian Writers' Union
- Herder Prize in Vienna in 1995,
- Central European Time Millennium Prize, 2000
References
- ^ Pécsi, György. "Kányádi Sándor Bibliográfia". Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia (in Hungarian). Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
- ^ Pécsi, György. "Kányádi Sándor Életrajz". Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia (in Hungarian). Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
External links
- Dancing Embers, a selection of poetry in English translation
- Travis Jeppesen on Kanyadi's Dancing Embers