Zsigmond Móricz Author

Zsigmond Móricz (1879-1942) wrote poems, essays and short stories as well as novels, and was one of the group of writer associated with the journal Nyugat (West). He excelled particulary at portraying the life of the rural and small-town Hungary in which he himself grew up. Móricz’s novel The Torch and a collection of his short stories, Seven Pennies, also exist in English translation.