György Konrád
György (George) Konrád (born the April 2nd, 1933) is a Romancier Hungarian, known like lawyer for the individual Liberté S. It was dissenting under the mode Communiste.
Konrád was born with Debrecen in a Jewish family easy. In 1951 after its studies in a Lycée of Budapest it enters to the Institut Lénine and made studies of Littérature, Sociologie and Psychologie at the university Loránd Eötvös. In 1956 it takes part in the Hungarian Soulèvement against the Soviet occupation but does not kill anybody although it has a machine-gun.
Working at the institute of city planning of Budapest then at the academic institute for the literary purses, it runs up against the system Politique and loses its employment. In 1976, it is imprisoned during a few days, it will be banished of any publication until the regime change in 1989.
Of 1982 with 1984 it lives in Berlin. In 1990 it is elected president of PEN international club and in 1997 he becomes the president of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Author of ten novels translated in a quizaine of languages (including five in French), it also published political and sociological tests. One of the largest novels of Konrád is " The visiteur" , a portrait blafard of the suffering in the industrial urban modern society, written from the point of view of a Civil servant of the social services.
In 2001, it receives the International prize Charlemagne.
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