Miklós Radnóti

Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti
BornMiklós Glatter
(1909-05-05)5 May 1909
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
DiedNovember 1944 (aged 35)
near Abda, Hungary
OccupationPoet
NationalityHungarian

Miklós Radnóti (born Miklós Glatter, surname variants: Radnói, Radnóczi; 5 May 1909 – 4 or 9 November 1944) was a Hungarian poet, an outstanding representative of modern Hungarian lyric poetry as well as a certified secondary school teacher of Hungarian and French. He is characterised by his striving for pure genre and his revival of traditional, tried and tested genres.