Melchior Lengyel

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Melchior Lengyel (born Menyhért Lebovics; Hungarian: Lengyel Menyhért; 12 January 1880 – 23 October 1974) was a Jewish Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter.

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Biography Lengyel was born Menyhért Lebovics in 1880, the second of six children in a Jewish family, in rural Hungary, in Sajohidveg, where his father supported the family as a farming supervisor. He started his writing career as a reviewer and journalist. He worked first in Kassa (Košice), then later in Budapest. His first play, A nagy fejedelem (The Great Prince) was performed by the Thalia Company in 1907. The Hungarian National Theatre performed his next drama A hálás utókor (The Grateful Posterity) in 1908 for which he received the Vojnits Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, given every year for the best play. Taifun (Typhoon), one of his plays, written in 1909, became a worldwide success and is still performed today. It was adapted to the screen in the United States in 1914. His articles were often published in Nyugat (West), the most important Hungarian literary journal in the first half of the 20th century. During World War I, he was sent to Switzerland by the Hungarian daily newspaper Az Est (The Evening) as a reporter. His pacifist articles and other publications written in 1918 were also published in German and French papers and were collected in a…Citește mai mult

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