Menyhért Lakatos

The native form of this personal name is Lakatos Menyhért. This article uses the Western name order.

Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer[1][2]

Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).[2]

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[3] 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.[4][5]

There is the Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest.[6]

Books

Märchen der langen Nächte. Roma-Märchen. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004 ISBN 9783851294538

Awards

Significant awards include:[7]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Lakatos Menyhért", a bio at the Lakatos Menyhért School website, citing Lajos Rácz, Roma értelmiségiek arcképcsarnoka ISBN 963 00 5586 4
  2. "Hungary's future: anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism and anti-Roma?", August 4, 2015,
  3. Lakatos Menyhért School and Gymnasium website
  4. "LAKATOS MENYHÉRT", Kortárs magyar írók (Contemporary Hungarian writers), 1998, ISBN 963-8477-31-8
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