Vilmos Csontos Memorial House

Vilmos Csontos (* October 11, 1908, Garamsalló, † September 12, 2000, Zalaba), poet. After completing five elementary grades, he worked as a day laborer, then learned the carpentry trade. His first poems were published in the weekly newspaper Bars in Léva in the 1920s. During World War II, he served in Transylvania and on the Russian front. He lived in Zalaba from 1948 until his death. In 1975, he received the Nationality Award, and in 1999 he was awarded the Small Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. ; His main works: On the Hungarian Fallow Land (poems, 1932), I Must Go Further (poems, 1941), I Believe in Man (poems, 1961), New Love (poems, 1966), Walking Path (autobiography, 1972, 1988), Heritage (poems, 1973), Evening Song (poems, 1982), I Am with You (poems, 1987), Lapwing's Song (selected poems, 1995).