Joseph Bereck

*March 9, 1945. Albár, † January 16, 2013. Dunaszerdahely / Writer, editor, translator. ; ; He graduated from Dunaszerdahely (1963), between 1963 and 1966 he obtained a certificate in elementary music teaching at the Pedagogical College in Nitra. Between 1966 and 1970 he worked at various jobs, one of the authors of the Black Wind anthology (1972), and continuously published in various magazines. From 1970 he was the editor of the regional weekly Csallóköz, from 1993 its editor-in-chief, then its senior editor. He translated works by Czech and Slovak authors into Hungarian. ; ;  Honors: Slovak Literary Fund Award (1974, 1994), Madách Award (1998). ; ; His main works: ; Before the Storm (elb., 1974), ; Old Man, the Last (r., 1977), ; Defeat (elb., 1981), ; Impulsive Awakening (non-fiction, 1988), Billiards in Memory of a Few Heroes (1995), ; The Pigeon Tamer (elb., 1997), ; Fairy Tales, or the Patching Varga (2004), ; Shepherd's Hours (elb., 2010). ; Literature: ; András Görömbei: Hungarian Literature in Czechoslovakia 1945—1980. (1982), Gyula Bodnár–László Tóth: The Trail Seeker (1994), Zoltán Szeberényi: Hungarian Literature in Slovakia 1945—1999 II. (2001), Krisztián Benyovszky: Figure-out. Somorjai Dispute 1. (2003).