Regarded by many as Hungary’s greatest twentieth-century poet, Atilla Jószef was born in 1905 in Budapest and published numerous collections throughout his life. He died, of suicide, under the wheels of a train in 1937.
Translated by Michael Castro and Gábor G. Gyukics.
Born in 1905, Jozsef published numerous collections of poetry during his life, and is recognized today as perhaps the greatest 20th century Hungarian poet. He committed suicide in 1937. Translator. Hungary