Tibor Déry

In 1911, he graduated from the Budapest Academy of Commerce and spent a year studying German in St. Gallen.

First, they settled in Vienna, where he worked for the Hungarian language newspaper, Bécsi Magyar Újság [hu].

[2] Nevertheless, during the right wing Horthy regime he was imprisoned several times, once because he translated André Gide's Retour de l'U.R.S.S. [fr].

In this period, he wrote what is often considered his greatest novel, The Unfinished Sentence, a 1,200-page epic story about the life of the young aristocrat, Lőrinc Parcen-Nagy, who gets into contact with the working classes in Budapest during a general strike.

In 1945, he remarried, rejoined the Communist Party and was elected to the leadership of the Hungarian Writers' Union.

In the same year, he wrote Niki: The Story of a Dog, a fable about the arbitrary restrictions on human life in Stalinist Hungary.

In 1984, a grant from his widow, who died in 1979, was used to establish the Tibor Déry Prize [hu], to honor achievements in literature.