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Pupus Quetzal Payne (born July 5th, 1922, died August 28th, 2002) was a trilingual Hungarian author. He wrote in Hungarian, English, and Latin. Some of his most famous works include The Pretzel Man, Words Unspeakable, and Ideas of a Lifetime: A Compilation of Motifs. While his presence is not well-known outside of his home country, he still very influential in Hungarian writing today.

Early Life
Pupus Payne grew up in a simple family in a small unnamed village outside of Budapest, the nation's capital. His mother was a native Hungarian while hs father was mainly American and he spoke more English than Hungarian. His parents taught him how to speak English and Hungarian as he grew up, but at the local school friends bullied him as Americans and English speakers were looked down upon. At the age of 19, he married his wife, Jazmin Horvath, who was also an English speaker. He attended the University of Szeged, on of the top universities in Eastern Europe, in Szeged, Hungary and graduated on an advanced path after three years. Shortly after his graduation, he and Jazmin both moved to downtown Budapest.

Career
Payne wrote many books in his native language of Hungarian, but also some books in English, such as one of his most famous works, Words Unspeakable. This book portrays Payne's struggle as a bilingual child and how he had to deal with these hardships growing up. His most famous novel, The Pretzel Man, published in 1957, won the Hungarian literature award known as the Konrád Award, named after famous Hungarian author György Konrád. In total, he wrote 23 books in Hungarian and 3 in English, as well as a collection of short stories in Latin. In the last years of his life, Payne moved to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America in order to start writing a new book in English about Hungarian influence on the European colonization of the American east coast and the American Revolutionary War. The title of this book was never recovered.

Death
On August 28th, 2002, Payne died at the age of 80 from heart failure at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts after living there for three short years. His funeral ceremony was one of the longest on records, lasting a full five hours and 32 minutes after the wood in his casket splintered apart and broke. As part of his last will and testament, he ordered all of his books to burned and the ashes to be put in his grave with him. Because of this, only very few copies of his books remain.