Menyhért Lakatos
Lakatos Menyhért • Illustration — Commemorative plaque to Mr. Lakatos Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer. Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).
Menyhért Lakatos
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- Born
- 1926 · Vésztő.
- Died
- 2007 · Budapest.
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Occupation
- writer
- Education
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Honours
- Laureate of the Hungarian Republic · József Attila Prize · Füst Milán Prize
- Languages
- Hungarian
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Lakatos Menyhért • Illustration — Commemorative plaque to Mr. Lakatos Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer. Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).
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His most famous book, Füstös képek ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as The Color of Smoke) is a novel based on personal experience, set in World War II. It is a bildungsroman that shows life in a Roma village in Northeast Hungary, from 1940 until the German occupation of the country in 1944 when Roma people were put into death camps. While filled with amusing anecdotes, a petty criminal subplot, and adolescent eroticism, it portrays dehumanization of Romani in the society. The Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest is named in his honour.
• 1975: Füstös képek • Bulgarian: Окадени картини, 1977 • German: Bitterer Rauch. Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 • French: Couleur de fumée: une épopée tzigane, Paris, Actes Sud, 1986. • English: The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma, 2015, • 1975: Angárka és Busladarfi • 1979: A hét szakállas farkas • 1979: A paramisák ivadékai • 1981: Az öreg fazék titka • 1981: Csandra szekere • German: Csandras Karren. Zigeunergeschichten. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1984 • 1982: Akik élni akarta • 1995: Hosszú éjszakák meséi • German: Märchen der langen Nächte. Roma-Märchen. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004, 1999 • 1998: A titok • 1999: Tenyérből mondtál jövendőt
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Awards
Significant awards include: • 2000: National Romani Self-Government Lifetime Achievement Award • 1999: • 1995: Book of the Year Award • 1993: Attila József Prize • 1976: Attila József Prize • 1976: Milán Füst Prize
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- 1.PORT.hu - Lakatos Menyhért.
- 2."Lakatos Menyhért", a bio at the Lakatos Menyhért School website, citing Lajos Rácz, Roma értelmiségiek arcképcsarnoka
- 3.The Color of Smoke.
- 4."Hungary's future: anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism and anti-Roma?", August 4, 2015,
- 5.Kovacshazy, Cécile. To understand the Roma, you need to read their literature.
- 6.Károly, Barlog. Lakatos Menyhért Általános Iskola és Gimnázium. www.lakatosmenyhert-iskola.hu.
- 7."LAKATOS MENYHÉRT", Kortárs magyar írók (Contemporary Hungarian writers), 1998,
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