Author György Moldova dies aged 88
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Kossuth Prize-winning author György Moldova has died at the age of 88, his family told MTI on Saturday.
Moldova was born in Budapest in 1934. After leaving secondary school, he studied dramaturgy at the College of Theatre and Film, but he could not complete his studies until 1986 for political reasons. He worked as a miner, gardener, factory worker, and teacher in a correctional institution for minors between 1957 and 1964.
In 1964, he happened to be doing a job in a film studios as a mechanic when his friends convinced him that he should try his hand at writing a script.
The resulting film, Thursday of love,
turned out to be a hit, attracting more than a million viewers and marking the start of his life-long career as a freelance writer.
His first book, Foreign Champion, was published in 1963 and won him instant popularity. It was followed by a series of over fifty works of fiction and more than thirty documentaries, with over 10 million copies sold. He also authored several plays staged in Hungarian theatres.
In his early stories, he depicted the working class, while his later novels are reflections of his moral criticism of his age.