István Tótfalusi Explained

István Tótfalusi
Nationality:Hungarian
Occupation:writer, literary translator, linguist, and editor
Birth Date:8 December 1936
Birth Place:Budapest

István Tótfalusi, born István Tóth, bearing this name until 1960 (Budapest, December 8, 1936 – August 29, 2020) was a Hungarian writer, literary translator, linguist, editor, and a recipient of the Attila József Prize (1997).

Career and work

Between 1955 and 1959 he was a student of Hungarian and English at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE BTK). Between 1959 and 1980 and from 1984 to 1996 he was editor-in-charge of the Móra Ferenc Book Publishing House, and between 1981 and 1983, the editor of Interpress Magazine.[1]

He translated poetry, novels, and plays into Hungarian from English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin. He translated into English several poems by Mihály Babits (1988), Milán Füst (1990), János Pilinszky, Gyula Illyés (1995), Péter Kuczka (1996), Ágnes Gergely (1997), Sándor Kányádi (1999), Sándor Weöres (2004), and Lőrinc Szabó (2006) as well as an anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry (1997).

Private life

In 1959 he married Éva Koncz. They had three children, András (1960), Ágnes (1963) and Gábor (1964).

He had five grandchildren, Vera (1993), Hanna (1989), Péter (1998), Anna (2000) and Gergő (2002).

Works

Translations into Hungarian

Translations into English

25 vers – 25 Poems (Maecenas Kiadó)

29 vers – 29 Poems (Maecenas Kiadó)

45 vers – 45 Poems (Maecenas Kiadó)

66 vers – 66 Poems (Maecenas Kiadó)

35 vers – 35 Poems (Maecenas Kiadó)

62 vers – 62 Poems (Maecenas Kiadó)

Awards and honours

Sources

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. News: Meghalt Tótfalusi István író, műfordító . September 3, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200904064118/https://hvg.hu/kultura/20200903_totfalusi_istvan_iro_mufordito . September 4, 2020 . January 3, 2024 . live . hvg.hu . hu . István Tótfalusi, writer, literary translator, died.