András Sütő
| András Sütő | |
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| Born |
June 17, 1927 Cămărașu, Romania |
| Died | September 30, 2006 (aged 79) Budapest, Hungary |
| Occupation | Writer, politician |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Ethnicity | Hungarian |
| Citizenship | Romanian |
| Notable works | Anyám könnyu álmot igér, Pompás Gedeon |
András Sütő (17 June 1927 – 30 September 2006) was an ethnic Hungarian writer and politician in Romania, one of the leading writers in the Hungarian language in the 20th century.
Sütő was born into a poor peasant family in Cămărașu (Hungarian: Pusztakamarás), in Cluj County, Transylvania. He received his primary and secondary school education in the Reformed College of Aiud and in the Reformed gymnasium in Cluj. After secondary school, he studied Stage Directing at the Szentgyörgyi István College of Dramatic Arts in Cluj.
Sütő quit college in order to become the editor in chief of the Falvak Népe weekly. He moved to Bucharest in 1951 because the editorial office was relocated there. Sütő could not identify himself with the political environment of the 1950s in the capital and returned to Târgu Mureş, Transylvania, in 1954, where he edited Igaz Szó, a literary magazine. He held this post till 1957, after which he edited Uj Élet, an illustrated magazine, till 1989.
Sütő's first work (A Letter to a Romanian Friend) was published by the Hungarian-language Világosság journal in Cluj, when he was 18. His writing career ranged across genres, with short stories (Félrejáró Salamon, 1955), satire (Pompás Gedeon, 1967), historical drama (Egy lócsiszár virágvasárnapja, 1974; Csillag a máglyán, 1974; Szuzai menyegzo, 1981), and myth and folklore (Káin és Abel, 1977; Advent a Hargitán, 1987). The dramas, in particular, probed the duty of the individual, confronted by arbitrary authority, to preserve his dignity and identity even at the cost of his life.
He served as vice-president of the Writers' Association of Romania between 1974 and 1982.
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