Menyhért Lakatos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Menyhért Lakatos

Hungarian writer

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1926

Place of Birth: Vésztő, Békés County, Hungary

Date of Death: 21-Aug-2007

Profession: writer

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Menyhért Lakatos

  • Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vészto — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writerSince 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).His most famous book, Füstös képek ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as The Color of Smoke) is a novel based on personal experience, set in World War II.
  • It is a bildungsroman that shows life in a Roma village in Northeast Hungary, from 1940 until the German occupation of the country in 1944 when Roma people were put into death camps.
  • While filled with amusing anecdotes, with a petty criminal subplot, and adolescent eroticism, it portrays dehumanization of Romani in the society.There is the Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest.

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