Lajos Parti Nagy (born Szekszárd, October 12, 1953) is a Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic, and one of the founding members of the Digital Literary Academy.
Nagy spent his childhood at Tolna, Kaposvár and Székesfehérvár.
He worked for the Baranya County Library for two years (until 1979), then from 1979 to 1986 as an editor for the literary magazine Jelenkor ("Our Age"), in which his poems had been first published in 1971.
He worked in the 80s as a member of the editorial board of "JAK notebooks" ("József Attila Circle Literary Association").
He has been living in Budapest since 1986 as a freelance writer and literary translator.