Dekay lajos zilahy biography

Hungarian novelist and playwright

Lajos Zilahy (27 March 1891 − 1 December 1974) was a Hungarian novelist and playwright.

Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War,^[1] in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front – an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also active in film. His 1928 novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His play The General was filmed as The Virtuous Sin in 1930 and The Rebel in 1931.

Edited Híd (The Bridge) 1940–1944, an art periodical.

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Opposed both fascism and communism. In 1939, he established a film studio named Pegazus, which operated until the end of 1943.^[2] Pegazus produced motion pictures and Zilahy directed some of them. In 1944, his play Fatornyok (Wooden Towers)