Ferenc Herczeg

186528_herczeg_ferenc_szobor_mti_nyito.jpg The statue of the writer Ferenc Herczeg was inaugurated A bust of Ferenc Herczeg, the most popular writer of the period between the two world wars, who was the first Hungarian writer to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, was erected in the building of the National Theater. He was exiled from Hungarian literature after the Second World War, and his works were republished only after the change of regime. The work of sculptor Mária Törley now commemorates Ferenc Herczeg.

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