Cult: Tibor Méray deceased | hvg.hu

Tibor Méray graduated in 1946 as a Hungarian-Latin high school teacher at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest. In 1946, he became a journalist for Free People, and then a correspondent for the newspaper in North Korea and then Berlin. He was editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Csillag from 1947 to 1949, and from 1954 he served for two years on the editorial board of Free People.

He emigrated to Paris in 1957 with his wife and common son, then became a journalist and then editor of the Brussels Review, and later became editor-in-chief of the Paris Literary Newspaper.

In the early stages of his emigration, Asbóth published his writings as Elemér and other pseudonyms. Many of his writings and books talked about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The first edition of Imre Nagy’s book Life and Death was published in Hungarian in Munich in 1978, in 2006 it was worth the eighth edition.

His screenplay is associated with the screenplay for Károly Makk’s film The 9th Ward and the novel The Farewell Letter: Paris. His writings have also appeared in the Parisian newspaper Le Monde, as well as several other major French bodies. He was vice president of the PEN Exil Paris group and founder of the Pissaro Museum in Pontoise.

Tibor Méray received the Kossuth Prize in 1953 and the Pulitzer Memorial Prize in 1992. She was recognized with the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in 1994 and with the Order of Honor of the French Republic in 1997, and in 2009 the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit received the star award.