Background
The son of an engineer from Miskolc in eastern Hungary, he graduated in Hungarian and Slavic literature from the Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd University) in 1970, and completed additional studies in journalism and sociology.
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The son of an engineer from Miskolc in eastern Hungary, he graduated in Hungarian and Slavic literature from the Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd University) in 1970, and completed additional studies in journalism and sociology.
His earlier career was spent in radio journalism. A few of them are available in English translation. Dramatic Exchange described it as "widely considered to be the most important Hungarian play of the last 20 years." His avant-garde style, depicting coarse language and characters outside the pale of respectability, often dismayed more traditional Hungarian critics.
His book, Az Ikszek (The X-s), which appeared in 1981, is a historical novel about the National Theatre of Poland in the first years of the 19-th century, with Wojciech Bogusławski as the main character.
The novel is about the fight of the artists against censorship. He published in 2005 an 800 page novel, Fogság (Captivity).
Secretariat in the Roman Empire in the time of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, it follows the experiences of a Jewish wanderer named Uri. Spiró"s earlier works eschewed Jewish themes, but in this work he returns to his ancestral roots.
In 2007, he published the rewritten Messiások (Messiahs), another historical novel.
His most recent novel is the hugely successful Tavaszi tárlat (Spring exhibition, 2010), describing the early days of the Kádár regime.
He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.