Ki a magyar

by Gyula Illyés

48 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1939

About the author

Gyula Illyés was a Hungarian poet and novelist. Born into a humble family of farm servants (his father was a mechanic of agricultural machines) on one of the big estates of Transdanubia, he was educated in Budapest and in Paris. He was one of the so called népi ("from the people") writers, named so because they aimed to show - propelled by strong sociological interest and left-wing convictions - the disadvantageous conditions of their native land.