Gyula Bodnar

* May 21, 1948, Királyhelmec / journalist, editor. writer ; ; His parents were civil servants. He completed his schooling in his hometown. Between 1954-1963, he attended the Királyhelmec Hungarian Elementary School, and between 1963-1966, he attended the Királyhelmec General Education Secondary School. Between 1966-1969, he worked as a laborer in Királyhelmec (heater, warehouse employee). He was a student at the Nyitra Pedagogical College between 1969-73, where he obtained a Hungarian-English teaching certificate. His wife, Mária Bodnár (Kósa), is a teacher. After his marriage, he settled in Nagymegyer in the early seventies. They had two children: Ildikó and Attila. Between 1973-74 he was the expert speaker responsible for foreign relations at the Slovak Ministry of Culture, then the editor of the cultural section of Új Szó, and its head since 1989. Since 1983 he has been the director of the Poloska Theatre in Nagymegyer. That year, at the Jókai Days in Komárom, the group won the main prize of the festival. Member of the selection and judging committee of the Jókai Days and the DMT, member of the board of trustees of the Katedra Society and the Katedra Foundation. Between 1995-2009 he was the editor-in-chief of the Katedra magazine. Between 1994-95 he was the deputy editor-in-chief of Nap. Between 1993-2017 he was the editor of STUDIO PLUSZ TV in Nagymegyer. ; ; Professional recognitions and awards: ; 1998 – Open Europe Award for outstanding activity in the field of journalism from the Sándor Márai Foundation, ; 1994 – Center for Foreign Journalists international journalist training institute, Washington, ; 1994 – Fehérgyarmat: special award for the film A nagydolog in the news report category of the II. Szatmár-Bereg Television Creative Festival (as an employee of the SpTv in Nagymegyer, together with the cinematographer Ferenc Kováts). ; From 1983, with the Poloska Theatre in Nagymegyer, he won the festival's main prize at the Jókai Festival in Komárom, was awarded the director's award, and successfully represented Hungarian amateur acting in Slovakia at the international theater festival in Túrócszentmárton, an excellent folk artist, ; 2010 – Katedra Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of journalistic work and his organizing and editorial activities as the editor-in-chief of the Katedra magazine; 2016 – Honorary Citizen of Királyhelmec for his journalistic life's work and his dedicated work in the field of cultural life, as well as for enhancing the reputation of our city; ; Main works: ; 1. Messze van Helgoland. Journalistic writings 1974–1989. Kalligram, Bratislava, 1992. ; 2. Nyomkereső. A small mirror of Hungarian literature in (Czechoslovakia) after the Second World War (co-author: László Tóth). Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 1994. ; 3. Görög Európa. Journalistic writings 1988–1998. Nap Kiadó, Dunaszerdahely, 1998. ; 4. Soap opera in the pool. Telediary 1995–1999. Ibid. 2000. ; 5. Words, colors, colors. Notes of a commuter. Ibid. 2001. ; 6. Raindrop on the ceiling. Articles, portfolios, notes 1993-2007, Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2008. ; 7. In the yard of the house. Journalistic writings – 1999-2009. Nap Kiadó, Dunaszerdahely, 2009. ; 8. Candle flame in the tunnel. Portfolios, articles, notes 2008-2013, Media Nova M, Dunaszerdahely, 2014. ; 9. Back bench, ART Danubius, 2016 ; ; Anthologies: ; ; The Language of Loyalty. Hungarian Writers in Czechoslovakia on the Mother Tongue. Madách Publishing House, Bratislava, 1985; Representatives – 113 Contemporary Portraits of Tibor Kopócs. KT Publishing House, Komárom, 2005; Christmas Gift. From the Pens of Upland Writers. Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2005; Alma Mater. Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2006; Gyula Szabó Memorial Book. Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2007; Vámbéry Anthology – 2006, 2008, 2009. Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely; My Dear Film. Ibid., 2o10 (also the compiler and editor of the volume) ; Szeberényi-album. Arany A. László Civic Association, Nyitra 2011; Portrait gallery of Hungarian journalism in Slovakia. Published by the Slovak Hungarian Writers' Association, 2013; Slovak Hungarian Fine Literature. Ibid., 2014; Vámbéry Anthology. 1999, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011. Lilium Aurum, or. Vámbéry Civic Association, Dunaszerdahely; ; Collections, selections:; László Barak: Trapped. Prose, journalism. Nap Publishing House, Dunaszerdahely, 1998; Gábor Pogány-Gyula Bodnár: Janiga 1946-2004. Ibid., 2005; Árpád Ozsvald: Dance of Lizards. Selected poems. Madách-Posonium, 2006; József Janiga: Landscape-Picture-Poem. Private publication by Nap Publishing, 2007; Tibor Ág: In the footsteps of folk song researchers in the Hungarian-populated region of Slovakia. Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2007; László Cselényi: Inexhaustible sea. Literary wanderings from antiquity to the present day. Ibid., 2008; Ferenc Kulcsár's most beautiful poems. AB-ART, 2011; ; Translations:; How many colors is the rainbow. A selection from the new Czech prose. Madách Publishing, 1981 (with others); Petr Příhoda: The Czech Chorus, Kalligram, 1993 (co-translator); Thomas Strauss: On modern art – retrospectively. From the fifties to the eighties. Ibid., 1995 (co-translator) ; ; Settlement areas associated with his life: Királyhelmec, Nyitra, Bratislava, Nagymegyer