Sándor Reményik

Sándor Reményik
Sándor Reményik
Born	Sándor Reményik (1890-08-30)August 30, 1890 Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Died	October 24, 1941(1941-10-24) (aged 51) Kolozsvár, Hungary
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	Hungarian

Tombstone at Házsongárd Cemetery

Sándor Reményik (30 August 1890, Kolozsvár – 24 October 1941, Kolozsvár) was a Hungarian poet.

Life

Sándor Reményik was born on 30 August 1890 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) to a wealthy architect. After he finished high school in Kolozsvár, he began studying to become a lawyer until an eye disease ended his aspirations.

Works

• Mistletoe (1918)
• Until death (1918)
• Only like that (1920)
• Verses of a border castle (1921)
• Whispers of wild water (1921)
• An idea comes (1925)
• The bells of Atlantis ring (1927)
• Front of the lamp (1927)
• Instead of bread (1927)
• Flower in ruins (1935)
• High tension (1940)
• Complete verses (1941)
• Completed (1942), contained posthumously unpublished verses
• Complete verses (1944)
• Snow cross (2005)

External links

• Some of his works (mp3)
• Works by Sándor Reményik at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Sándor Reményik at Internet Archive