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Tibor Tollas (or with full name Tibor Kecskési Tollas) (Nagybarca, Hungary 21 December 1920 - Munich, Germany 19 July 1997) was a Hungarian poet, chief editor of the newspaper Nemzetőr.

Life
He was born in Nagybarca, Hungary on 21 December 1920. In his ancestry there were soldiers who were served under Lajos Kossuth, so he also went to Military School in Sopron and in the Ludovica Military Academy in Budapest. In 1941 he already served as a lieutenant. He was served during the World War II and after it as an officer. In 1945 both his hands were injured. In 1947 he was arrested by fake accusations and the people's court sent him jail for 9 years, which he spent in Budapest, Vác and Tatabánya (in a mile work camp). He was freed in 1956. In the Revolution of 1956 he served as a liaison officer. On 1 December 1956 he founded with his former jail fellows the emigrant newspaper "Nemzetőr" (Nation's guard). He was the chief editor of this newspaper for 40 years.

He was one of that few people, who was still live, when the Soviet troops left Hungary, and he could go home permanently of forever from the emigration. He died on 19 July 1997 in Munich, Germany.

His works

 * Füveskert (Antology), Vienna, 1957. then Budapest, 1995. (In German: Munich, 1957, In Italian: Florence, 1958, In Russian: Buenos Aires, 1958, In Spanish: Buenos Aires, 1959, In Norwegian, In Danish: Oslo, 1959, In English: New York, 1966.)
 * …csak ennyi fény maradt. (Poems, 1945-1960), Bruxelles, 1960.
 * African Mission (with Tamás Kürthy), Munich, 1963.
 * Gloria victis. Az 1956-os magyar szabadságharc költői visszhangja a nagyvilágban. (Poems collected by Tibor Tollas), Munich, 1966.
 * Járdaszigeten (Poem), Munich, 1967.
 * Eszterlánc (Poem), Munich, 1969.
 * Gloria victis. Az 1956-os magyar szabadságharc költői visszhangja a nagyvilágban. (Poems collected by Tibor Tollas), Munich, 1973.
 * Irgalmas fák. (Poem), Munich, 1975.
 * Bányászok, (Poem), Munich-São Paulo, 1976.
 * Évgyűrűk, (Poems, translations), Munich, 1979.
 * Forgószélben. (Selected poems), Munich, 1983, In English: Chicago, 1990.
 * Varázskör (Poem), Munich, 1988.
 * Varázskör – Forgószélben, (Selected poems), 1989.
 * Forgószélben – In Whirlwind, (Selected poems in English and Hungarian), Chicago, 1990.
 * Hazafelé. Negyven év válogatott versei (Ed. Sándor Agócs), Lakitelek, 1991.
 * Füveskert 1954-1995, (Edited with Rudolf Pfitzner, Kamil Kárpáti and Bálint Tóth), 1995.
 * Bebádogoztak minden ablakot. (Multilingual minibook), Lakitelek, 1995.

Further readings

 * Medvigy Endre: Az emigrációban munkálkodó Kecskési Tollas Tibor küzdelme az 1956-os szabadságharc szellemének és a magyar kérdésnek ébrentartásáért. In: Magyar Örökség. Laudációk könyve: 1995-2000. Budapest, Magyarországért Alapítvány, 2001. pp. 257-260.
 * Novák József: Tollas Tibor „Szememmel lássad az utat...!” In: Evangéliumi Hírnök – Az Észak-Amerikai Magyar Baptista Szövetség havilapja Chicago, September 1997.
 * Saáry Éva: Varázskör – Tollas Tibor emlékére. In: Kanadai Magyarság, Toronto, 2002. vol. 52.
 * Márai Sándor tíz levele. In: Vigilia, Budapest, January 2001.
 * Juhász László: Varázskörben. Egy barátság emlék-forgácsai. In: Új Horizont. 1998. 5-6. sz. p.100-104.
 * Lőcsei Gabriella: In memoriam Tollas Tibor. In: Magyar Nemzet. 30 August 1997. p.18.
 * Modor Ádám: In memoriam Kecskési Tollas Tibor (1920-1997). In: Napi Magyarország. 6 April 1998. p.3.
 * Modor Ádám: Kecskési Tollas Tibor emléke. In: Népszabadság. 3 April 1998. p.13.