István Tótfalusi, born István Tóth, bearing this name until 1960 (Budapest, December 8, 1936 – August 29, 2020) was a Hungarian writer, literary translator, linguist, editor, and a recipient of the Attila József Prize (1997).
Between 1959 and 1980 and from 1984 to 1996 he was editor-in-charge of the Móra Ferenc Book Publishing House, and between 1981 and 1983, the editor of Interpress Magazine.
[1] He translated poetry, novels, and plays into Hungarian from English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.
He translated into English several poems by Mihály Babits (1988), Milán Füst (1990), János Pilinszky, Gyula Illyés (1995), Péter Kuczka (1996), Ágnes Gergely (1997), Sándor Kányádi (1999), Sándor Weöres (2004), and Lőrinc Szabó (2006) as well as an anthology of contemporary Hungarian poetry (1997).
He had five grandchildren, Vera (1993), Hanna (1989), Péter (1998), Anna (2000) and Gergő (2002).