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György Dalos

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Dalos György

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1943-09-23 (Budapest)
Nationality
Hungary
Languages
Hungarian, Russian, German
Religion
Jewish
Residence History
Budapest → Moscow → Budapest → Vienna → Berlin

Career

Occupations
writer, historian, museologist, translator, editor, publisher
Active Years
1967-
Affiliations
Institute for Hungarian Culture (Berlin), International Council of Austrian Service Abroad
Memberships
International Council of Austrian Service Abroad

Education

Lomonosov Moscow State University
History Department
Period: 1962-1967
Year of Graduation: 1967
Country: Soviet Union

Awards

Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
2010
Organization: City of Leipzig
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

1985

1983 Dystopian novel

Sequel to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, beginning with Big Brother's death.

TotalitarianismAnti-communism

The Guest from the Future

1998 Non-fiction

Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin.

HistoryLiterature

The Circumcision

2006 Novel

Bibliography

  • 1985
  • The Circumcision
  • Proletarier aller Länder, entschuldigt mich
  • The Guest from the Future
  • Der Gottsucher
  • Ungarn in der Nussschale
  • Balaton-Brigade
  • 1956
  • Jugendstil

Style & Themes

Literary Style
SatiricalHistorical
Recurring Motifs
Communism critiqueEastern European history

Legacy

Hungarian writer and historian best known for 1985, a sequel to 1984, and critiques of Eastern European dictatorships.

Trivia

  • Father died in a labor camp during WWII.
  • Co-founder of opposition movement against Hungarian communist regime.