George Paloczi-Horvath, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian writer
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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About George Paloczi-Horvath
- George Paloczi-Horvath (1908-1973) was a Hungarian writer, best known for his 1959 autobiography book The Undefeated.He was born in 1908 to a privileged Hungarian family.
- As a young journalist, he reported on the rise of fascism in Europe and became a dedicated anti-Nazi.
- When the German army marched through Budapest in 1941, he fled the country under an assumed name, ending up first in Cairo and, after the war, in London.
- He returned to Budapest in February 1947, where he edited a magazine and joined the Communist Party.
- But he was soon arrested as a spy, and spent the next five years in prison.
- He was subjected to solitary confinement and torture.
- He was finally released in 1954, and after the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, he left the country for good.Paloczi-Horvath settled in Richmond, London with his family, and earned his living as a freelance writer and journalist.
- He published The Undefeated in 1959; the book won the Atlantic Editors' Non-Fiction Prize and the Prix de la Liberté, and has been reprinted by Eland Books.
- He also wrote political biographies of Khrushchev and Mao Tse Tung. He died of a heart attack in 1973.
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