Szalatnai Rezső memorial plaque

Rezső Szalatnai, along with Pál Szvatkó and Zoltán Fábry, was the most significant critic of Hungarian literature in Czechoslovakia between the two wars, a literary historian and writer who, among other things, was committed to the Hungarians in Slovakia with his courageous action against the disenfranchisement between 1945 and 1948. ; Rezső Szalatnai (1904–1977) was born in Nagyszalatná, attended high school in Szakolca, and earned a teaching certificate from the University of Bratislava. From 1930 to 1945, he taught at the Hungarian high school and teacher training college in Bratislava, and worked in the university library in Bratislava between 1945 and 1948. He was one of the founding members of the Sickle Movement. He published his writings in numerous Slovak newspapers. In 1948 he moved to Budapest, worked for a few years at the Institute of East European Studies, and from 1950 to 1965 at the University Library. ; He primarily wrote works on literary history and the history of relations, and had little time to create works of fiction. ; Writer and literary historian Rezső Szalatnai was a teacher at the Hungarian Gymnasium on Duna Street in Bratislava for a long time. The bilingual memorial plaque was erected on the 100th anniversary of his birth by the Slovak Hungarian Writers' Association, the Slovak National Museum and the Slovak Museum of Hungarian Culture.