Menyhért Lakatos

Menyhért Lakatos (April 11, 1926, Vésztő — August 21, 2007, Budapest) was a Hungarian Romani writer[1][2]

The native form of this personal name is Lakatos Menyhért. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Since 1988 he was President of the Hungarian Romani Cultural Association (Magyarországi Cigányok Kulturális Szövetsége).[2]

His most famous book, Füstös képek ("Images in Smoke", translated in English as The Color of Smoke) is a novel based on personal experience, set in World War II. It is a bildungsroman[3] 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, with a petty criminal subplot, and adolescent eroticism, it portrays dehumanization of Romani in the society.[4][5]

There is the Lakatos Menyhért School in Budapest.[6]

Books
  • 1975: Füstös képek
    • Bulgarian: Окадени картини, 1977
    • German: Bitterer Rauch. Verlag Volk und Welt. Berlin 1978 (ISBN 9783421018335), 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, ISBN 0985062347
  • 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 (ISBN 9783851294538), 1999
  • 1998: A titok
  • 1999: Tenyérből mondtál jövendőt

Märchen der langen Nächte. Roma-Märchen. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2004 ISBN 9783851294538

Awards

Significant awards include:[7]

  • 2000: National Romani Self-Government Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 1999: Hungarian Laurel Wreath Award
  • 1995: Book of the Year Award
  • 1993: Attila József Prize
  • 1976: Attila József Prize
  • 1976: Milán Füst Prize

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2015-08-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Lakatos Menyhért", a bio at the Lakatos Menyhért School website, citing Lajos Rácz, Roma értelmiségiek arcképcsarnoka ISBN 963 00 5586 4
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-12-18. Retrieved 2015-08-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Hungary's future: anti-immigration, anti-multiculturalism and anti-Roma?", August 4, 2015,
  5. Kovacshazy, Cécile. "To understand the Roma, you need to read their literature".
  6. Károly, Barlog. "Lakatos Menyhért Általános Iskola és Gimnázium". www.lakatosmenyhert-iskola.hu.
  7. "LAKATOS MENYHÉRT", Kortárs magyar írók (Contemporary Hungarian writers), 1998, ISBN 963-8477-31-8
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