László T. Ágoston

Ágoston learned joinery in his father's yard (this experience inspirated later many of his novels) but left his family soon moving to Budapest. Because of his opposition to the ruling communist system he was able to start his university studies much later, just in the 1970s. He worked mainly as a journalist in smaller newspapers, but his novellas were published frequently also in the most prestigious Hungarian magazines.

He was discovered by József Kopré (former associate of Zsigmond Móricz) leading to his first publication in 1966[1] that was followed by more than 1000 others in newspapers and magazines. Although his writings were selected for 25 anthologies his first book was published just in 2001. Founding member, the first secretary general of the Gyula Krúdy Club of Literature in 1982 after the political changes in 1989 became a member of the Hungarian Writers' Union, in 1991-1992 advisory board member in the Writer's Foundation. He gained more and more recognition after his first novel "Hol lakik az Isten?" was published in 2001.