"Dezső Szabó (born June 10, 1879 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary (present-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania), died January 5, 1945 in Budapest) was a Hungarian linguist, writer, noted mainly for his three-volume novel "Az elsodort falu" ("The Eroded Village") and his pamphlets. Szabó's oeuvre is contradictory, some consider it as the peak of Hungarian expressionist prose, others call it one of the first "pioneers of Magyar populist literature". He was a Nobel Prize nominee in 1935. He is also known for his anti-semitic views.
Szabó came to live in Budapest in 1918 and started publishing short essays in the literary revue Nyugat which was the leading newspaper of Hungary's intellectuals. He had a great success with his pamphlet criticizing István Tisza, the liberal-conservative prime minister of Hungary. Due to this writing he became one of the leading figures of Hungarian progressive intellectuals." - (en.wikipedia.org 18.11.2021)
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