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Ottó Tolnai

オットー・トルナイ

Ottó Tolnai

Aliases: Ото Толнаи

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-07-05 (Stara Kanjiža)
Died
2025-03-27 (Palić) age 84
Nationality
Yugoslav, Hungarian
Languages
Hungarian, Serbian, Polish, Slovenian, German
Residence History
Novi Sad → Palić, near Subotica

Career

Occupations
Writer, Poet, Translator, Editor, Art critic
Active Years
1956-2025
Affiliations
Symposion, Új Symposion, Ex Symposion
Memberships
Yugoslav Writers’ Association, Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts (honorary), Digital Literary Academy

Education

University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Humanities / Hungarian Language and Literature and Philosophy
Period: 1959-1962
Year of Graduation: 1962
Country: Serbia
University of Zagreb
Hungarian Language and Literature
Period: 1962以降
Country: Croatia
Hungarian high school in Senta
Period: 1955-1959
Year of Graduation: 1959
Country: Serbia

Awards

Kossuth Prize
2007
Organization: Hungarian state
Result: 受賞
Híd Prize
1967
Result: 受賞
Híd Prize
1980
Result: 受賞
Hungarian Literary Prize
2005
Work: Költő disznózsírból
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

rovarház

1969 Novel

His first novel

Vojvodina life

Bayer aspirin

1981 Monodrama

Performed at Novi Sad Theatre

Adaptations
  • [Theatre] Bayer aspirin / Miklós Jancsó (1981)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Versatile and multifaceted
Recurring Motifs
Vojvodina Hungarian culture

Legacy

One of the most versatile and outstanding figures of Hungarian literature in Vojvodina

Trivia

  • Wrote fictional encyclopedia entries