Background
László T. Ágoston was born in the countryside in a tradesman family in Tass.
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Acclaimed novellist, his best-known work is his novel titled "A Két Lenkey" about a group of Hungarian Hussars leaving their post in Poland returning to Hungary to join the war of independence. The publicist First he learned joinery in his father"s yard (this experience inspirated later many of his novels) but left his family soon moving to the capital, Budapest. Because of his opposition to the ruling communist system he was able to start his university studies much later, just in the 1970s.
He worked mainly as a journalist in smaller newspapers, but his novellas were published frequently also in the most prestigious Hungarian magazines.
The writer The most important part of his oeuvre is undisputedly his literary work. Although his writings were selected for 25 anthologies his first book was published just in 2001.
He gained more and more recognition after his first novel "Hol lakik az Isten?" was published in 2001.
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After it had been published László T. Ágoston gave several lectures in universities, became special member of the Lenkey Cultural Association. Founding member, the first secretary general of the Gyula Krúdy Club of Literature in 1982 after the political changes in 1989 became a member of the Hungarian Writers" Union, in 1991-1992 advisory board member in the Writer"s Foundation.
