Lorinc Szabo

Poet

Birthday March 31, 1900

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Hungary

DEATH DATE Oct 3, 1957 (57)

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About

Hungarian poet and translator known for A Satan Muremekei (Masterpieces of Satan), Regen es most (Then and Now), and other works. He also published a book of sonnets entitled The 26th Year.

Before Fame

He began writing for Az Est, a Budapest literary publication, in 1921.

Trivia

He was a member of the European Writers' League, an organization that had been founded by infamous Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels.

Family Life

He married Klara Mikes in 1921 and had two children. Later, he had a long-term relationship with Erzsebet Korzati that lasted until Korzati's 1950 suicide.

Associated With

He translated Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous Kubla Khan into Hungarian.