Erno Polgar


Ernő Polgár was a Radnoti Prize and Nagy Lajos Prize-winning author. In 2007 he was awarded one of the highest Hungarian rewards: the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary. He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 for the year of 2018. He was a world literary rank Hungarian-European author, editor, littérateur and dramaturgist. Since 2018 he had been living in Borneo Island, Brunei Kingdom, spending time in his "writing house".

Life

He attended the secondary grammar school Janos Hunyadi and did his final exams there in 1972. He worked as a librarian and graduated at the University of Theatre and Film Arts as a dramaturgist.
Between 1972 and 1976 he worked as a librarian in the National Széchényi Library then became an editor for the Hungarian Radio Corporation. From 1979 he worked as a dramaturgist for the then between 1997 and 1998 worked as Head of Registrars Department at the University of Theatre and Film Arts.

Literary career

Ernő Polgár is a well-known writer. He received the Radnóti Anti-Racism Award 2014
The readers can find the different manifestations of the anti-Semitism in his works This sentence makes it sound like his writing is anti-semitic, which doesn't make sense given the preceding sentence noting that he won an award for not being racist. Ernő Polgar's philosophy is, “the measure of the civilization are the respect for ancestors and humanism.”
He started writing as a child for the journal The People of Petofi.
His sociography titled “The Lodgers” was published in the magazine in 1975. He won the scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1981, the Soros Fellowship in 1983 and the Scholarship of Pro Cultura Hungariae in 1998 He has been a free-lance writer since 1998. Between 2000 and 2003 he was the head of Blue Shop Online Gallery and Digital Publisher and chairman of the supervisory board of www.hun-info.hu online media agency. From 2002 he was the secretary and later chairman of the Prose Section of the Hungarian Writers' Union.
Since 2004 he has been the member of the, managing literary programs: “Nights in Lipotvaros”, “Encounters” and “Frankel Nights”. Member of the Hungarian P.E.N. Club and the National Association of Hungarian Artists, chairman of the Association of Humanist Writers and secretary general of the Barankovics Jewish Workshop In 2007 he won one of the highest Hungarian prizes: Magyar Köztarsasagi Erdemrend Lovagkereszt

Works

  • 1983 Davy Jones' locker, Coming home, Ady Drama “Ady” was presented by the Children's Theatre, Budapest
  • 1985 Beyond the Equator Presented by Madach Theatre, Budapest
  • 1991 Rendezvous in Bangkok, Convicted, Fire walkers
  • 1992 In the wake of the yellow stars
  • 1994 Birdies of God
  • 1994 Be my wife!
  • 1994 On board Philemon around the world
  • 1994 Lotus
  • 1997 In the wake of the yellow stars The second life of a woman
  • 1999 Love stories
  • 2000 The trees in St Stephen's Park
  • 2000 Under the spell of actors and actresses
  • 2001 In the wake of civilizations
  • 2001 The secrets of the Islamic world
  • 2002 The isle of gods
  • 2002 Under the spell of seas and continents
  • 2003 The servant of Kama
  • 2004 Lethal kiss

Works published in lifework edition

  • 2005 How I became a mother
  • 2005 The origin of cultures and their archetypes. Introduction to the world of myths and symbols
  • 2006 The sailing boat of Cleopatra. Gastronomic tours.
  • 2006 The second life of a woman
  • 2007 Gallop of the nomads
  • 2007 The secrets of the Islamic world
  • 2008 Oceania
  • 2009 Mum, the candle shut its eyes!
  • 2009 India and other worlds
  • 2010 Jews, shove off! Exile to Babylon
  • 2011 ABC of the culinary history
  • 2012 Facebook of love
  • 2012 Exile to Babylon.
  • 2013 Decameron of India
  • 2013 Walks in Ujlipotvaros.
  • 2014 The birdies of God
  • 2015 Times-Sceneries-People

Works published online

  • 2010 Walks in Ujlipotvaros
  • 2012 Decameron of India
  • 2012 The 20th century from where we have arrived
  • 2013 Under the spell of seas and continents
  • 2013 The birdies of God
  • 2013 Eras – scenes – people. The culture of thousand years.
  • 2013 Exile to Babylon
  • 2014 Holocaust
  • 2014
  • 2014 Jenseits und Diesseits der irdische Bühne Übersetzerin: Klara Kohlhepp
  • 2015 LE ORIGINI E LE IMMAGINI PRIMORDIALI DELLE CULTURE
  • 2015 Saloon Clotilde Translated by Anna Feuer
  • 2016 Polgar Erno Written by Cserenyi Rita
  • 2016 Sulle orme delle civiltà – Camminata attraverso la Valle di Neander fino
all'Internet http://mek.oszk.hu/16300/16364/
  • 2017..." : Fejezetek Bácsalmás történetéből I was born here, this is my home http://mek.oszk.hu/16400/16498/
  • 2017 !A Lyukasóra tíz éve Tíz éves a Magyar Írók Egyesülete) Ten years old the Association of Hungarian Writers http://mek.oszk.hu/16900/16951/
  • 2017 Tudományos-fantasztikus regény Fantastic travel http://mek.oszk.hu/16900/16963/
  • 2017 A nő Tudományos-fantasztikus regény The Woman http://mek.oszk.hu/16900/16972/
  • 2017 Amori Translated by Kati Szasz http://mek.oszk.hu/17300/17353/