Miklós Bátori

Miklós Bátori, pen name of Miklós Bajomi or 1920 – 25 February 1992 ) was a Roman Catholic writer of Hungarian origin.

Life Born in Bátaszék (Hungary), in 1944 he published his first novel, (literally: "Mudflat") in Budapest, still under the name Miklós Bajomi. He was taken prisoner of war in France in 1945, and enrolled at the Sorbonne after his release. He returned to Hungary in January 1947 for family reasons

He fled Hungary after the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and moved to Paris. He was a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian literary and cultural magazine in Paris and also wrote in other Hungarian emigration newspapers. and in 1961, (literally: "Death in the vineyard"), which evokes the effort of Christians to recover, under a hostile regime, the purity of the early Church. This last book, translated and published in French in 1965 under the title Le Vignoble des saints, was awarded the Grand prix catholique de littérature.

In 1963, Les Briques is a novel from the last days of the Hungarian revolution.

In 1967, Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu features the evangelist Mark who tells what he has seen throughout his life.

His following works were written directly in French.

Bátori died in Paris.

Work Un étrange paradis, Plon, 1961 (translated from Hungarian) , Cologne 1960) Les Briques, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1963 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript) Le Vignoble des saints, Robert Laffont, 1965 (translated from Hungarian , Cologne 1961, Grand prix catholique de littérature. Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu, Robert Laffont, 1967 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript (crowned by the Académie française) Le lièvre a pleuré, Robert Laffont, 1969, La vie est un océan, Robert Laffont, 1973 Bakfitty, Fayard, 1977 Notre ami, Lazare (chronique), Éditions du Cerf, 1983)