Elek Benedek

The result was a collection of "Transylvanian Folk Tales", which was met with so much positive critique, that the young Elek Benedek cut short his studies.

In his speeches he engaged in favor of youth literature and "Folk-Poetry", folk language and public education.

He also wrote poems, dramas, novels and historical fiction books, but the most famous were his "Szekely Fairy-Tales".

In 1885 it was published the compilation Székely Tündérország ("Szekler Fairy-land"), which contained the first original fairy tales from the authors.

After the Treaty of Trianon of 1920 (which transferred sovereignty over Transylvania to Romania), he went back to his native village, Kisbacon, where he edited the youth magazine Cimbora ("Friend") until he died.