Miklós Bátori


Miklós Bátori, pen name of Miklós Bajomi was a Roman Catholic writer of Hungarian origin.

Life

Born in Bátaszék, in 1944 he published his first novel, Ingovány in Budapest, still under the name Miklós Bajomi. He was taken prisoner of war in France in 1945, and enrolled at the Sorbonne after his release. He returned to Hungary in January 1947 for family reasons and then went on to study at university in Budapest. He then taught in the provinces in a technical high school in Győr where he was also director of the boarding school.
He fled Hungary after the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and moved to Paris. He was a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian literary and cultural magazine in Paris Ahogy Lehet and also wrote in other Hungarian emigration newspapers.
In 1960, he published in Hungarian Kálvária in Cologne after the address of his high school, which describes the time when, as a teacher at Győr, he fled with a group of Catholics persecuted by the communist power and in 1961, A halál a szőlőskertben, which evokes the effort of Christians to recover, under a hostile regime, the purity of the early Church. This last book, translated and published in French in 1965 under the title Le Vignoble des saints, was awarded the Grand prix catholique de littérature.
In 1963, Les Briques is a novel from the last days of the Hungarian revolution.
In 1967, Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu features the evangelist Mark who tells what he has seen throughout his life.
His following works were written directly in French.
Bátori died in Paris.

Work