Paul lendvai biography

Hungarian-born journalist (born 1929)

The native form of this personal name is Lendvai Pál. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Paul Lendvai (born 24 August 1929) is a Hungarian-born Austrian author and journalist. He moved to Austria in 1957, where he works as an author and journalist.

Biography

Lendvai was born in Budapest on 24 August 1929 to Jewish parents.^[1] During the Rákosi era in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lendvai worked as a journalist in Hungary, starting in 1947.

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Lendvai wrote for Szabad Nép and was also chief of foreign reporting at the Hungarian news agency (MTI). Lendvai's books from the 1950s include Tito the Enemy of the Hungarian People (1951) and France at a Crossroads (1955), which sold 50,000 copies. As a former Social Democrat, he was judged as politically unreliable and was jailed by the communist regime for eight months during 1953 and banned from the media for three years.^{&# Toggle share options CEK}