About
Born Miklós Glatter in Budapest to an assimilated Jewish family, he lost his mother at birth and his father at age twelve. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Szeged and changed his surname to Radnóti. Married to Fanni Gyarmati, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1943. A recognized poet, he received the Baumgarten Prize in 1937. Due to his Jewish origins, he was conscripted three times into forced labor battalions. Killed in 1944 during a death march, his notebook of poems was exhumed in 1946. His posthumous collection 'Tajtékos ég' is a major testimony of the Holocaust.
* 1909-05-05 — † 1944-11-09
Major works
- Újmódi pásztorok éneke (1931)poetry collection
- Járkálj csak, halálraítélt! (1936)poetry collection
- Tajtékos ég (1946)poetry collection
- Razglednicák (1944)poem cycle
Key milestones
- 1934Earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Szeged.
- 1937Received the Baumgarten Prize for his collection 'Járkálj csak, halálraítélt!'.
- 1944Killed during a death march near Abda, Hungary.
Themes
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Sources: encyclopedia.yivo.org · poetryfoundation.org