Education
He graduated with a law degree from the University of Szeged.
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Laszlo Passuth
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He is the father of art historian, Krisztina Passuth. From 1919 to 1950 he worked mainly as a bank clerk and then, until his retirement, in a government office for translation. His first attempts as a writer appeared in the 1920s in several magazines.
Passuth served as the main secretary of the Hungarian Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club from 1945-1960, although he was expelled in 1948 from the Hungarian Writers’ Union in 1948 after the Stalinist take-over.
His first novel, Eurasia, published in 1937, was followed by a number of historical novels. They showed sophisticated style and attention to precise historical details.
In 1939, he published Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico, a novel about Cortez and the conquest of Mexico. lieutenant was his first work to attract international attention.
lieutenant was translated into French, German, Spanish, and English.
Among his some 40 novels are also Joan of Naples (1940), based on the life of the medieval queen, Joan I, and Madrigal (1968), a novel around the life of composer Carlo Gesualdo.
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Hungary