Laszlo Koncsol

* Deregnyő, June 1, 1936 – / literary critic, poet, local historian, cultural historian ; ; His father was a pastor. He began his secondary school studies in Sárospatak, then graduated in Komárom in 1954. He obtained a teaching certificate in Hungarian-Slovak at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1959. He was a primary school teacher in 1960–1963, and between 1963–1974 he was a book publisher’s editor and a colleague of the Literary Review. Between 1985–1997 he worked as a local historian of Diósförgepatony. In this capacity, he edited and published numerous local history publications and selections about the past of Diósförgepatony and other surrounding settlements. He edits the Csallóközi Kiskönyvtár series of the Kalligram Publishing House in Bratislava, which currently has more than 40 volumes. In addition to his work on local history and cultural history, his literary studies, essays, criticism, poems and translations are primarily significant (for a list, see the Encyclopedia of Czech/Slovak Hungarian Literature 1918–2004, 2004). Between 2002 and 2006, he was the chief trustee of the Slovak Reformed Church District.