Menyhért Lakatos Explained

Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő - August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer^{[1] [2]}

Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).^[2]

His most famous book, Füstös képek ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as The Color of Smoke) is a novel based on personal experience, set in World War II. It is a bildungsroman^[3] that shows life in a Roma village in Northeast Hungary, from 1940 until the German occupation of the country in 1944 when Roma people were put into death camps. While filled with amusing anecdotes, with a petty criminal subplot, and adolescent eroticism, it portrays dehumanization of Romani in the society.^{[4] [5]}

There is the Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest.^[6]

Books

• 1975: Füstös képek
  • Bulgarian: Окадени картини, 1977
  • German: Bitterer Rauch. Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982
  • French: Couleur de fumée : une épopée tzigane, Paris, Actes Sud, 1986.
  • English: The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma, 2015,
• 1975: Angárka és Busladarfi
• 1979: A hét szakállas farkas
• 1979: A paramisák ivadékai
• 1981: Az öreg fazék titka
• 1981: Csandra szekere
  • German: Csandras Karren. Zigeunergeschichten. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1984
• 1982: Akik élni akarta
• 1995: Hosszú éjszakák meséi
  • German: Märchen der langen Nächte. Roma-Märchen. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004, 1999
• 1998: A titok
• 1999: Tenyérből mondtál jövendőt

Awards

Significant awards include:^[7]

• 2000: National Romani Self-Government Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1999:
• 1995: Book of the Year Award
• 1993: Attila József Prize
• 1976: Attila József Prize
• 1976:

Notes and References

1. Web site: PORT.hu - Lakatos Menyhért . 2015-08-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081028011230/http://port.hu/pls/pe/person.person?i_pers_id=161562 . 2008-10-28 . dead .
2. http://www.lakatosmenyhert-iskola.hu/nevadonk.html "Lakatos Menyhért"
3. Web site: The Color of Smoke . 2015-08-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151218160129/http://neweuropebooks.com/The_Color_of_Smoke.html . 2015-12-18 . dead .
4. https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/annabel-tremlett/hungary's-future-antiimmigration-antimulticulturalism-and-antiro "Hungary's future: anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism and anti-Roma?"
5. Web site: To understand the Roma, you need to read their literature. Cécile. Kovacshazy.
6. Web site: Lakatos Menyhért Általános Iskola és Gimnázium. Barlog. Károly. www.lakatosmenyhert-iskola.hu.
7. http://mek.oszk.hu/00000/00019/html/l/i007752.htm "LAKATOS MENYHÉRT"