Radnóti, miklós

Radnóti gimnázium

Education: University of Szeged, Politics: Socialist. Religion: Jewish; converted to Roman Catholicism , Also worked variously as tutor, stenographic instructor, and translator. Also editor and translator of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes. Along the way, near Abda, Hungarian guards executed the marchers and buried them in a mass grave.

A collection of poetry from his final months was posthumously published as Tajtekos eg and contains powerful poems written during his imprisonment, including "Eroltettet menet" "Forced March". Marianna D. Birnbaum wrote in Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies that "as the years pass, he is more and more recognized on a European scale as a significant poetic witness to our time, ranking with the late Paul Celan and with the Polish poet Zibignew Herbert.

This title foreshadowed his death. After a matador friend was killed in the ring, he wrote "Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias" "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter" and remarked that his friend's death was a prelude to his own.