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4 unusual facts about Attila József


Ági Szalóki

:The record includes renewed folksongs and sung poems from Attila József, Károly Tamkó Sirató, Sándor Weöres and from Anna Szabó T., who is a young Transylvanian-born poet.

Attila József

A Transparent Lion: selected poems of Attila József; translated by Michael Castro and Gabor G. Gyukics, Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer 149, 2006 ISBN 1-933382-50-3

The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Transylvanian origin from Banat, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest.

Nyergesújfalu

Attila József, a noted 20th-century poet, studied here for a short time.


Ataol Behramoğlu

He published in Istanbul his own translations of poems selected from the work of Louis Aragon (1897-1982), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), Attila József (1905-1937), Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), José Martí (1853-1895), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1936), Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849), Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Yiannis Ritsos (1909-1990) and others under the title "Ballads of Brotherhood".


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