Gábor Görgey is a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 writer, poet, director and politician, who served as Minister of Culture

Minister of culture

A culture minister is a Cabinet position in some governments responsible for protecting the national heritage of a country and promoting cultural expression....

 between 2002 and 2003. He is a descendant of the freedom fighter General Artúr Görgey

Artúr Görgey

----Artúr Görgey de Görgő et Toporcz was a Hungarian military leader.He was born at Toporz in Upper Hungary of a Hungarian noble family of originally Zipser German descent who immigrated to Upper Hungary during the reign of king Géza II . During the reformation they were converted to Protestantism...

 who served as Minister of War during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848

Hungarian Revolution of 1848

The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 was one of many of the European Revolutions of 1848 and closely linked to other revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas...

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Honours

• Graves Prize (1976)
• Attila József
  Attila József
  Attila József was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.-Biography:The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Romanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder...
  
   Prize (1980)
• Tibor Déry
  Tibor Dery
  Tibor Déry was a Hungarian writer. In his early years he was a supporter of communism, but after being excluded from the ranks of the Hungarian Communist Party in 1953 he started writing satire on the communist regime in Hungary.Georg Lukács praised Dery as being 'the greatest depicter of human...
  
   Award (1989)
• Book of the Year Award (2000)
• Pro urbe Budapest (2001)
• Gold Pen (2005)
• Kossuth Prize
  Kossuth Prize
  The Kossuth Prize is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionary Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 by the Hungarian National Assembly, to acknowledge outstanding personal and group achievements in the fields of...
  
  (2006)

Works

• Füst és fény (poems, 1956)
• Délkör (poems, 1963)
• Köszönöm, jól (poems, 1970)
• Alacsony az Ararát (plays, 1971)
• Légifolyosó (poems, 1977)
• Munkavilágítás (essays, 1984)
• A díva bosszúja (short stories, 1988)
• Nők szigete (poems, 1990)
• Mindig újabb kutyák jönnek (novel, 1991)
• Eszkimó nyár (poems, 1993)
• Utolsó jelentés Atlantiszról (novel, 2000)

His first drama, the Komámasszony, hol a stukker? brought significant successes. It was showed in the United States too.