Endre Ady, poet, journalist, and short-story writer, was born in Ermindszent, Austria-Hungary. Read this brief biography, with dates from history.
BIOGRAPHY
Endre Ady, poet, journalist, and short-story writer, was born in Ermindszent, Austria-Hungary. He came from an impoverished family of Calvinist ministers. He was educated at a Calvinist college at Zilah and later at a law school. He left before graduating to work as a journalist.
Ady published his first collection of verse, VERSEK, when he was 22. The following collection, MEG EGYSZER, gained him recognition as a writer. Throughout his life he published over 1000 poems in 10 volumes of poetry.
Endre Ady died in Budapest in 1919.
CHRONOLOGY
1877 He was born in Ermindszent, Austria-Hungary.
1899 VERSEK
1900 He began working as a journalist.
1903 MEG EGYSZER
1906 UJ VERSEK
1907 VER ES ARANY; SAPADT EMBEREK ES EGYEB TORTENETEK
1908 AZ ILLES SZEKEREN; He began contributing to the journal NYUGAT.
1909 SZERETNEM, HA SZERETNENK; UJ CSAPASON
1910 A TIZMILLIOS KLEOPATRA ES EGYEB TORTENETEK; IGY IS TORTENHETIK; A MINDEN-TITKOK VERSEI
1911 AZ ILLES SZEKEREN
1912 A MENEKULO ELET; MARGITA ELNI AKAR
1913 A MAGUNK SZERELME; MUSKETAS TANAR UR
1914 KI LATOTT ENGEM?
1915 He married Bertuka Boncza.
1918 A HALOTTAK ELEN
1919 He died in Budapest. (January 27)
1923 AZ UTOLSO HAJOK
1933 THE MAGYAR MYSE
1944 VALLOMASOK ES TANULMANYOK
1945 7 POEMS BY ADY
1949 PARIZSBAN ES NAPFENYORSZAGBAN
1959 A NACIONALIZMUS ALKONYA
1961 OSSZES NOVELLAK; ADY AZ IRODALOMROL; OSSZES VEREK
1969 POEMS BY ENDRE ADY
1975 OSSZES VERSEI I-II
1977 THE EXPLOSIVE COUNTRY
