Writer and artist Istvan Arkosi was awarded this year’s Arani Janos Prize in commemoration of the 1956 Hungarian Writers’ Association on Saturday in Budapest.
Literary historian Zoltan Janusi praised the winner and reminded him that different branches of the arts and sciences sometimes meet in one person. This is Istvan Arkosi, who “drawn it with his brush, painted it with a pencil, wrote his own symbols and signs on the walls of the era, as an alienated Magyar beyond the borders of Trianon and as his spiritual follower in 1956.” The artist was born in Cluj-Napoca.
The statuette with the Arany János Prize – the work of Bertalan Kunthor – was handed over to Kinga Erős, president of the Hungarian Writers’ Association, by István Árkossy.
At the ceremony, Minister Laszlo Lovaci spoke about the fact that the 1956 revolution became a community of destiny that united the nation, the Hungarians, a new alliance. Featured: The revolution of 65 years ago demonstrated that if one cannot choose one’s destiny, one can at least change it if there is enough insistence.
He said that Attila Gereks, one of the most important martyrs of 1956, suffered a fate that was not his fate even before the revolution. We can shape our destiny ourselves, but remember: it can be written by others in our place at any time.” to caution.
A wreath was laid at the 1956 ceremony on the memorial plaque on the wall of the Writers’ Association headquarters and in the memorial plaque Attila Gereks by the Hungarian Academy of Arts, the Hungarian PEN Club, the National Cultural Fund, the Petőfi Cultural Agency, the Hungarian Writers Association, and representatives of the Writers’ Union The Writers Association and the Hungarian Writers Association.
