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György Ferdinandy (October 11, 1935 (83 years old))

His parents were György Ferdinandy (1904–1974), a doctor, and Erzsébet Rejto (1912–2003). He completed his secondary school studies at the Budapest Piarist Grammar School. His father, beaten by the Nazis, was disabled and paralyzed for the last thirty years of his life, so he took different jobs to support himself, and finally worked at the Metropolitan Bus Station in Budapest between 1954 and 1956.

In 1956 he was admitted to the Hungarian-French section of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE BTK) to study French literature. Six weeks later, the Hungarian revolution broke out, of which he became a chronicler. After the defeat of the revolution on 7 December, he left the country and sought refuge first in Austria, then in France, where he took up residence in Strasbourg.

Between 1956 and 1964 he worked in France as a Russian translator, as an accountant, and as a bricklayer. At the same time, between 1957 and 1969, he was a student, first at the University of Dijon and, later, at the University of Strasbourg. In 1969 he obtained a Ph.D. in Literature from Strasbourg.

Between 1964 and 2000 he taught at the University of Puerto Rico, where he taught in Spanish. Between 1964 and 1970 he was the publisher of the Sad Sunday. Between 1976 and 1985 he was a correspondent for Radio Free Europe.

He has been alternating between Puerto Rico and Miami since 2000 and has moved his headquarters to Budapest since the 2010s.

In 1960, the first volume of French short stories, the Island under the water (L'île sous l'eau), was published. After the success of the volume, he signed a contract with the publisher of Céline and Cendrars, Éditions Denoël. In 1964, one of the most prestigious French literary awards, the Saint Exupéry Prize, was awarded for one year's Le Seul jour de l'année. His first Hungarian prose book, published in Munich in 1965, was called the Conveyor Belt.

He returned to Hungary in 1987, then taught at the Eötvös College for a year. In 1988, Magveto Publishers published his first Hungarian book, The Story of My Belief.

In 1992 he taught at Janus Pannonius University in Pécs. In 1993, the French Volunteer muve was awarded the Book of the Year Award.

In 2013 he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, but he left the company and will be a member of the company again in 2015. [2]

His first wife was the French Colette Pexrethon. In 1980 María Teresa Reyes, a Cuban wife, was married to Jorge-José Ferdinandy.

His translations came from Hungarian to French, from French to Hungarian, from Hungarian to Spanish, from Spanish to Hungarian. Youth

Georges Ferdinandy, from the Hungarian bourgeoisie (his father and grandfather were doctors in Buda), was born in Budapest. He did his primary studies in the capital, then, from 1945 to 1950, at the Lycée des Fathers Premonstratensians in Gödöllő where he is an intern. In 1947 he was sent to Belgium for two years by the Red Cross. This is where he learns French. Between the ages of 15 and 18, he returned to Budapest, first to the Piarist Fathers, then, in 1954, to the State High School where he graduated. From those years of high school, he is already seeking to express himself in writing and writes epics in the Hungarian language. Exile in France

Hosted at the castle of Pourtalès with other Hungarian refugees, Georges Ferdinandy obtains a scholarship from Radio Free Europe. He will remain seven years in the Alsatian capital and will obtain a license of letters while exerting various activities, in particular in the diffusion of cultural works for the French Central of diffusion, but especially for Fernand Nathan and the Brocéliande Editions (disambiguation) | Brocéliande. He obtained his first publication in the newspaper of Mons The Province, in 1957. From this date, he will not stop writing news: he found his form and his pace of work. In 1958, he married Colette Peyrethon. From 1958 to 1960, he studied in Dijon where he obtained, in May, a Diploma of Burgundy Studies.

In 1964, Georges Ferdinandy obtained a post of Professor of Humanities (Western civilization) at the University of Puerto Rico where he remained until his retirement in 2000. Each year, he returned to France and in 1969, he presented his dissertation on Segismundo Remenyik (hu) (Hungarian author from South America) and obtained a doctorate of Arts at the University of Strasbourg. Between 1977 and 1986, he is a literary critic at Radio Free Europe. Back to Hungary

His first book, L'Ile sous l'eau, which appeared in Strasbourg in 1960, won the Cino Del Duca Prize. From 1961 to 1986, he published six collections of short stories at Éditions Denoël. From 1964 he wrote the same texts in Hungarian. These appear in publishers emigration (Chicago, London, Vienna, Paris, Munich ...). In 1964, he won the Antoine de Saint Exupéry prize for his new The only day of the year. In the 1980s, he published texts at the NRF, in the magazine Europe and in the Sunday World.

In 1981, he remarried with Maria Theresa Reyes. In 1964, he is Hungarian again and in 1987 he returns officially to Hungary. Since 1988, he has been a part of Hungarian literary life and has published extensively in his native language. In 1993, La Fiancée française obtained in Budapest the prize for the "Book of the Year".

In 2000, Georges Ferdinandy left Puerto Rico for Miami. He shares since his life between the United States and Budapest. In total, Georges Ferdinandy has published about fifty books: nearly thirty collections of news in Hungarian and twenty in French. It is translated into English, Spanish, Bulgarian, German. University works and two documentary films are devoted to him2,3. distinctions

Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015. HUN Order of the Hungarian Rep (civil) 4class BAR.svg Officer of the Order of Hungarian Merit, 2011.

In the penultimate paragraph of the 1984 Oxford History of Hungarian Literature, by Lóránt Czigány, Ferdinandy’s contribution is described as follows:


 * Generation '56 has not produced significant prose writers. There were a few gifted short story writers in the early 1960s, who fell silent, either out of · apathy or because they were discouraged by the bleak prospects for publishing longer works. There is, however, a single exception—Gyorgy Ferdinandy (1935– ), who lives in Puerto Rico. Nostalgia for a torturing past is the key motif in his prose; his words are resonant with painful memories. He is a master of evoking blurred images in a few sentences which are often rhythmic, always rich in texture, and which offer no relief for the tension caused by the havoc which dispersed generation '56. His works are: On the Assembly Line (Munich, 1965), Professor Nemezio Gonzales Delivers a Speech to the Animals of the Black Forest (Paris, 1970), and The Sea at Valencia (Munich, 1975).