By receiving Kossuth prize in 1996 along with Péter Esterházy, he once again became subject to political criticism for alleged disrespect to Christianity.
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Between 1981 and 1985 he co-edited Beszélő, the illegal paper of the Democratic Opposition, and became involved in their anti-regime activities; he was a member of SZETA (Fund for the Support of the Poor, an illegal NGO that drew governmental attention by advocating the mere existence of poverty) from which a liberal party, SZDSZ was formed in 1988.
In his childhood he played the piano, and as stepson of György Petri at the age of 16 on the advice of a family-friend György Kurtág, he chose the Indian tabla drum pair as his instrument.
György Ligeti | György Kurtág | György Konrád | György Cserhalmi | Petri Lindroos | Islote de Sancti Petri | György Lukács | Michala Petri | György Dózsa | Petri Nygård | György Klapka | György Aczél | Petri Kuljuntausta | Petri Hiltunen | Petri Aho | Jusztinián György Serédi | György Szepesi | György Petri | György Mezey | György Lázár | György Kottán | György Kolonics | György Fehér | György Faludy | György Balázs | Carl Adam Petri |