Dierd Faludi Hungarian poet, prose writer, translator. Date of Birth: 22.09.1910 Country: Hungary

Biography of György Faludy

György Faludy was a Hungarian poet, prose writer, and translator. He was born into a Jewish family in 1910, and his father was a university professor. Faludy studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin, and Graz from 1928 to 1933. In 1938, he moved to France, then to Morocco, and finally to the United States. During this time, he published a magazine and served in the American army from 1943 to 1945.

After returning to Hungary in 1946, Faludy was arrested in 1949 and spent three years in a forced labor camp in Recsk. Upon his release, he focused on his translation work. In 1956, he emigrated again and lived in the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Malta. In 1967, he settled in Canada and became a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and others.

Faludy obtained Canadian citizenship in 1976 and was honored with an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1978. In 1989, he returned to Hungary. In addition to his poetry, he published translations of the works of Heinrich Heine, François Villon, and François Rabelais. His autobiographical book about the labor camp, "My Happy Days in Hell," published in English in 1962 (before "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"), gained him the most recognition. It was later translated into German and French. In Hungarian, it was published in 1987 as a samizdat.

Throughout his career, Faludy produced numerous works, including poetry collections, novels, biographies, essays, and selected poems. He received the Kossuth Prize in Hungary in 1994. In Toronto, a park was named after him, located opposite the house where he lived for over 20 years.