Ferenc Talányi was born in Brezovci, near Puconci in Slovenia as the son of Mihály Temlin and Katarina Frankó.
He worked as an editor of several newspapers and distanced himself from the Magyarization policy; he even wrote Dober pajdás in Slovene.
He was captured in January 1945 and convicted for imprisonment in German prisons, but only served a few months.
After World War II he was a member of several political organizations in Yugoslavia.
In 1955, he published an article in Pomurski vestnik in which Talányi emphasized his communist past.