About Antal Hidas
Lived 1899 – 1980 (aged 80). Antal Hidas was a Russian and Hungarian writer, poet, literary translator, journalist, factory worker and newspaper vendor.
Antal Hidas (18 December 1899 – 22 January 1980) was a Hungarian communist writer, poet and translator.
In 1921, following the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he and his future wife Judit Szántó emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where their child, Éva Szántó, was born. They returned to Hungary in 1924 and divorced the following year.
In 1926 he emigrated again, to the Soviet Union, where he married Ágnes Kun, Béla Kun's daughter.
Hidas was arrested in January 1938 during the Great Purge (seven months after his father-in-law Béla Kun's arrest), but survived the Gulag and returned to Hungary in 1959.
He won the Kossuth Prize in 1962.
Hidas died of cancer in 1980. He is buried with his wife Ágnes Kun in the Fiume Road Graveyard in Budapest.
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Who was Antal Hidas?
Hungarian poet, writer, translator (1899–1980)
When was Antal Hidas born?
Antal Hidas was born on 18 December 1899 in Gödöllő.
When did Antal Hidas die?
Antal Hidas died on 22 January 1980 in Budapest.
What was Antal Hidas's occupation?
Antal Hidas was a writer, poet, literary translator, journalist, factory worker and newspaper vendor.
What nationality was Antal Hidas?
Antal Hidas was Russian and Hungarian.
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