György Faludy
György Faludy · Arts & Literature
Poet / lyricist
1910, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) — 2006, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary · France · United States · Canada
György Faludy is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Poet / lyricist
Faludy was a Hungarian poet and translator of Jewish origin, celebrated for his free adaptations of the medieval French poet François Villon, which became enormously popular in Hungary. Persecuted under both Nazism and communism, he was interned in the Recsk labour camp and later chronicled it in his memoir 'My Happy Days in Hell', a classic of anti-totalitarian literature. He spent long periods in exile before returning to Hungary. He was of Jewish background.
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Poet / lyricist
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