Sándor Fekete, b. 1927
Born in Miskolc, Fekete entered Budapest University in 1945, to study Hungarian and Italian, as a member of Györffy College. In 1947–8, he was secretary of the Vasvári Academy, and then successively secretary in 1948–9 of the Petofi Political Officers’ Training Academy, the Pedagogical College and the College of Remedial Pedagogy. In 1949, he abandoned his university studies in favour of the Party College. In 1952–3, he edited the journal Új Hang (New Voice), and from 1951 to 1956 he was a staff member and then column editor of the central party daily Szabad Nép (Free People), whose editorial committee he joined in 1951. In 1956, he joined the Hungarian Faculty at the Budapest Loránd Eötvös University. In 1957–8, he worked for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Literary History. However, the role he had played in the rearguard actions during the revolution and his writings under the pseudonym Hungaricus led to prosecution in the Mérei trial and a nine-year prison sentence. Released under the 1963 amnesty, he was a scientific administrator at the Institute of Literary History until 1975. He then joined the staff of the weekly magazine Új Tükör, of which he became an editor until 1986 and editor-in-chief until 1989. Fekete was a founder member of the New March Front in 1988.
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