Award-winning Hungarian writer dies

Kossuth and Jozsef Attila award-winning writer István Szilágyi died at age 85 on Wednesday, the ministry of culture and innovation said.

Szilágyi was born in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) in 1938 and spent most of his youth in Zalau (Zilah).

After graduating with a law degree from the university of Cluj-Napoca in 1963, he contributed to literary magazine Utunk and later became its deputy editor-in-chief before becoming editor-in-chief of literary magazine Helikon.

His most successful novels included Kő hull apadó kútba (A Stone Drops in a Dwindling Well), published in 1975, Agancsbozót (Antlershrub), published in 1990, and Hollóidő (Raventime), published in 2001.

He was awarded, among others, the Attila József Prize in 1990, the Kossuth Prize in 2001, and the Hungarian Order of Merit, Middle Cross with the Star in 2014.

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