Miklos Radnoti - Ikrek Hava

Hungarian writer and teacher Miklos Radnoti was the son of a textile vendor and was born in Budapest. He followed in his father's footsteps in the textile business until 1930, when he decided to pursue studying philosophy, Hungarian and French language at the University of Szeged. He wrote prolifically in the genres of short stories and poetry until his internment in a Jewish labor camp in the early 1940s. He converted, with his wife, to Roman Catholicism and was subsequently deported to Serbia. He died on the forced march from Bor to Szentkiralyszabadja, where he wrote his last poem in October 1944. Reading these "Long Short Stories" in Hungarian is actor Laszlo Gaffi. He is well known for his roles as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the film production of Wagner, and as Frederic Chopin in the Hungarian TV film Liszt Ferenc, about the life of Franz Liszt.