József Nyirő

József Nyírő (July 18, 1889 – October 16, 1953) was a Hungarian writer of popular short stories and novels;

Biography Nyírő was born July 18, 1889, in the village of Székelyzsombor, Udvarhely County, Kingdom of Hungary (today Jimbor, Brașov County). He became the speaker of Hungarian section of the European Writers' League before that position went to Lőrinc Szabó. After the Second Vienna Award of 1940, Nyírő joined the Hungarian parliament as a member of the extreme right-wing, antisemitic Transylvanian Party.

Nyirő's fiction, popular in the 1930s and 1940s, describes the life of the Székely villagers living in the Carpathian Mountains, such as woodcutters and farmers. In place of the reburial, a small ecumenical service for the writer took place. The ceremony was attended by the leadership of the Jobbik party, Hungary's State Secretary for Culture, Géza Szőcs, and the Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, László Kövér. He announced that they will bury Nyírő one way or the other and that they had smuggled his ashes into the country. In further protest, Wiesel rejected the Great Cross, a Hungarian government award that he received in 2004.