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At 97 years of his death, Tibor Méray was a Kossuth Prize-winning writer, journalist and public writer, of which the Digital Literary Academy was aware, of which he was a founding member.
According to the report, Tibor Méray died on Thursday.
Tibor Méray was born on April 6, 1924 in Budapest. He graduated from the Pázmány Péter University Faculty of Arts, with a BA in Hungarian Latin since 1946, after which he was employed by Free People, and later a correspondent in Korea and Berlin. In 1947 and 1948 he was editor-in-chief of the Star, from 1953 he was party secretary of the Writers’ Union and then one of its secretaries, in 1954 and 1955 he was a member of the editorial board of Free People. He was removed from office due to the political support of Imre Nagy, a dissident with his wife and son in November 1956, and was unable to return home for decades.
In emigration, he was initially a journalist for the Brussels Review. From 1962 he became one of the publishers, then between 1971 and 1989 he became the editor-in-chief of the Paris Literary Newspaper and the associated Literary Newspaper book series. In the early stages of his emigration, Asbóth published his writings as Elemér and other pseudonyms.
He did much to keep alive the memory of the 1956 revolution, and many of his writings and books spoke of the Hungarian revolution. 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 book The Cleaning Storm – Additives to the Story of an Era (1949-1956) has been published several times. He also wrote screenplays and novels, and dealt with journalism until his death. 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 Paris group of PEN Exil, founder of the Pissarro Museum in Pontoise, vice president of the International Pissarro Society.
His main works are: Fuego (1948); Singing is a beautiful life (1950); Testimony. Reports on the fight against Korea (1952); Korea Report (1953); The white current (1954); Hotel de l’Écu and other stories (1954); Ward 9 (1955); The Miracle Striker (1956); Le dernier rapport (1958); Thirteen days that shook the Kremlin. Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution (1958); Farewell letter (1965); The rebellion of the mind (1960, with Tamás Aczél); Der Mann ohne Scnurrbart (1960); Australia (1962); The politician ohne Gnade (1965); Budapest, October 23, 1956 (1966); Life and Death of Imre Nagy (1978); Wesselényi utca 13. (1995); Romanians (1996); Wall Pea (1997); In the castle of Paris (2000); After 44 years. The Budapest-Moscow-Bucharest triangle (2001).
In 1997, Tibor Méray received the Order of Honor of the French Republic. In 1951 he received the József Attila Prize, in 1953 the Kossuth Prize. After the regime change, he received the Pulitzer Memorial Prize in 1992, the Golden Pen Prize in 2000, and the Imre Nagy Order of Merit in 2002. In 2004 he received the commemorative Pro Cultura Hungarica plaque. In 2009 he became an honorary citizen of Budapest, in the same year he received the Central Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary with the Star (civic section).
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