Menyhért Lakatos

Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer.

Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége). 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, a petty criminal subplot, and adolescent eroticism, it portrays dehumanization of Romani in the society.

The Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest is named in his honour.

Books 1975: Füstös képek Bulgarian: Окадени картини, 1977 German: Bitterer Rauch. Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1978 , 1979, 1980, 1982 French: Couleur de fumée : une épopée tzigane, Paris, Actes Sud, 1986. English: The Color of Smoke: An Epic Novel of the Roma, 2015, 1975: Angárka és Busladarfi 1979: A hét szakállas farkas 1979: A paramisák ivadékai 1981: Az öreg fazék titka 1981: Csandra szekere German: Csandras Karren. Zigeunergeschichten. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1984 1982: Akik élni akarta 1995: Hosszú éjszakák meséi German: Märchen der langen Nächte. Roma-Märchen. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004 , 1999 1998: A titok 1999: Tenyérből mondtál jövendőt

Awards Significant awards include: 2000: National Romani Self-Government Lifetime Achievement Award 1999: 1995: Book of the Year Award 1993: Attila József Prize 1976: Attila József Prize 1976: