Lajos Parti Nagy

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Lajos Parti Nagy was born on October 12, 1953, in Szekszárd. He is a Hungarian poet, writer, editor and critic who helped found the Digital Literary Academy and won the Kossuth Prize. He grew up in Tolna, Kaposvár and Székesfehérvár, finished high school in 1972, and studied Literature and History at the Teacher Training College of Pécs (now part of the University of Pécs), graduating in 1977. He worked at the Baranya County Library until 1979, then edited the literary magazine Jelenkor from 1979 to 1986, where his poems were first published in 1971. In the 1980s he was on the editorial board of JAK notebooks. Since 1986 he has lived in Budapest as a freelance writer and translator.