Ferenc Kulcsar

* Bodrogszentes, October 9, 1949 – † Dunaszerdahely, March 22, 2018 / poet, editor ; ; Parents: Ferenc Kulcsár and Jolán Szűcs. He completed his secondary education at the Hungarian-medium Mechanical Technical Secondary School in Košice. He began his university studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava, majoring in philosophy and Hungarian, but dropped out and became a reporter for Új ifjúság. Between 1973 and 1985, he was a press officer and editor at Madách Könyvkiadó. From 1975, he was the reading editor of Irodalmi Szemle, and between 1984 and 1991, he was the editor-in-chief of the Dunaszerdahely Lilium Aurum publishing house since 1991, and since 1995, he was the editor-in-chief of the pedagogical magazine Katedra. In his poetry, his social sensitivity and realistic approach are combined with experimentation, and he moves towards montage poetry. He received the most prestigious literary award of his life, the Balassi Bálint Memorial Sword, in 2014 at the Gellért Hotel in Buda on Bálint's Day. The sword was presented to him by Miklós Duray. ; ; Works: ; ; Napkitörsek (poems, 1972) ; I Called Eden (poems, 1975) ; Krónikatőredék (poems, 1979) ; Dióhintó (children's poems, 1981) ; A kígyókő (tales, 1984) ; Madách Naptár 1980-1984 (edited with József Szilvássy, 1984) ; A felkialtómeles ember (poems, 1987) ; The Silence of Time (selected poems, 1991); Prayers (essays, 1992); Always (poems, 1993); Imaginary Homelessness. 50 Years – 50 Poems (poems, 1999); The Devil's Chariot. Legends, myths, fables and beliefs of Bodrogközi from the Conquest to the Twentieth Century (tales, 2003); Repertoire. Katedra 1994–2003, ed. by Ferenc Kulcsár, Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2003; Balaam's Donkey (poems, 2003); Private Gallery, ed. by Ferenc Kulcsár, Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2004; I Don't Know, Maybe... (teenage poems, 2006); Pearls and Beads (2006); Gyula Szabó Memorial Book, comp. Ferenc Kulcsár, Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2007; The Word of the Temple. In Honor of Miklós Görözdi Id., ed. Ferenc Kulcsár, Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2008; The Red Flower of My Dead. Selected Poems 1970-2010, Madách-Posonium, Bratislava, 2010 (Hungarian Antaeus Books); The Most Beautiful Poems of Ferenc Kulcsár, comp., afterword Gyula Bodnár, AB-art, Bratislava [Bratislava], 2011; Amen and Omen, Lilium Aurum, Dunaszerdahely, 2012; Circles in the Middle of the World. Poems from Bodrogköz for Young and Old, Bratislava, Ab-art, 2014 ; Ezeregyéjszaka, poem by Ferenc Kulcsár, painting by Gyula Jakoby, SZMÍT, Bratislava, 2015 ; Tim-tom, I Find You, él. Aranka Kocsis, Anser Tárasaság, Hetény, 2017 (Cabóca-könyvek) ;

Anthologies

; One-Eyed Night. Anthology of Young Slovak Hungarian Poets (edited, 1970) ; From Csallóköz to Bodrogköz (poem and prose anthology, 1977) ; Presence (poem anthology, 1979) ; Ballerózsa, summer snow (children's poetry anthology, 1979) ; Retaining Magic (poems, 1980); Approach (with László Tóth, 1980); Mihály Tompa on the Lute of Hungarian Poets (1982); How to Fly? (1986); Beautiful Love Poems (1998); On the Edge of the Highway. Hungarian Poetry in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1988 (1990); Fire Palace. Love Poems by Hungarian Poets in Czechoslovakia (1990); Tradition and Renewal. Hungarian Essayists in Czechoslovakia 1948–1988 (1990); Restless Vines, Young Poets (1993); Picnic in the Sahara, Anthology of Young Writers (1993); Iródia, 1983-1993 (with Gyula Hodossy 1994); Nyomkereső (1994); Mesevarázs (1997); Csodalámpás (children's poems, 1998); Fél százdásztás Hungarian poets (1998); Hányzó fejezetek (2001); Fótelmes százlágép. Poems of Slovak Hungarian poets 1918–2003 (2003); A magyarokhoz (2003); 1111 (2003); Szólámász sép poems (2004–2006); Karácsonyi ajándék (2005); Hétördögök. Fables, poems for 8-12 year olds, ill. Géza Balázsy, AB-art, Bratislava, 2006; Slovak Hungarian Fine Literature (2007–2008) ; Leipzig. Statues, Drawings, Writings, ed. Ferenc Kulcsár, Leipzig Civic Association, Dunajská Streda, 2018 ;

Awards

; Slovak Literature Foundation Award (1972, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1992) ; Imre Madách Award (1991, 2014) ; Katedra Award (1999) ; Imre Forbáth Award (2006) ; Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit (2013)