Miklos Meszoely; Popular Anti-Soviet Hungarian Author
Miklos Meszoely, 80, one of Hungary’s most popular authors, who penned numerous plays, poems, novels, short stories, children’s stories and essays, died Sunday in Budapest.
A 1942 graduate of Budapest University’s law school, he published his first book in 1948, but was soon blacklisted by the Communists for not following the party line. He did not publish again until he released two children’s tales in 1955.
Long an anticommunist, Meszoely was among the intellectuals involved in the unsuccessful 1956 revolt against Soviet rule and was again banned from publishing until 1963.
Meszoely was one of the Hungarian writers who publicly protested the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and was involved in the dissident movement in the 1970s and 1980s against the Communist rulers of Hungary.
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