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Milán Füst

フュスト・ミラン

Füst Milán

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1888-07-17 (Budapest)
Died
1967-07-26 (Budapest) age 79
Nationality
Hungarian
Languages
Hungarian
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Dohány utca in the 7th district of Budapest (early life) → Baden-Baden (1928, sanatorium)

Career

Occupations
writer, poet, playwright, business school teacher, academy director, art school teacher
Active Years
1908-1967
Affiliations
Vörösmarty Academy, Képzőművészeti Főiskola
Influenced By
Ernő Osvát, Dezső Kosztolányi, Frigyes Karinthy

Awards

Kossuth Prize
1948
Organization: Hungarian Government
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Story of My Wife

1942 novel

The story of a husband's obsessive love for his wife.

Translations
  • English translation available

Health

  • nervous breakdown
    1928年、6ヶ月間
    Spent six months in a sanatorium in Baden-Baden.

Legacy

Prominent Hungarian writer, poet, and playwright. Recipient of the Kossuth Prize and a contender for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. Best-known for The Story of My Wife.

Trivia

  • His family lived on Dohány utca in Budapest's 7th district early in life.
  • Began working on his long Journal in 1904, but a large part covering 1944-1945 was later destroyed.