ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arguably the most significant modern Hungarian poet, Lajos Walder was born in Budapest in 1913 and died in 1945 in the Gunskirchen concentration camp, on the day it was liberated by the Allied forces. He had managed to graduate as a lawyer, despite the severe limitations on the number of Hungarian Jews allowed to pursue a university education. He was not, however, permitted to practice; instead he found work as a laborer in a factory. He continued to write and publish until the outbreak of the war, when he was recruited to a forced labor battalion ...