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Pál Békés


Born
in Budapest, Hungary
March 27, 1956

Died
May 28, 2010

Genre
Children's


Writer, playwright, translator. He earned a degree in comparative English and Hungarian literature from ELTE University in 1980. He worked as an interviewer doing sociological surveys then as a teacher of English and Hungarian. In the 1984-1994 period he was a freelance writer then he worked for the Hungarian Television as a studio manager and as an editor of its literary and theatrical programs. He had been working as a freelance writer from 2000. He had a predilection for an experimental voice, his works are characterized by the grotesque and the ironic.

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Average rating: 4.15 · 343 ratings · 36 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors
Csikágó
4.64 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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A Félőlény
4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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A kétbalkezes varázsló
3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions
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A kétbalkezes varázsló
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Bélyeggyűjtemény
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999
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Lakótelepi mítoszok
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“Tudták: soha le nem bírhatják a szörnyeket. De tudták azt is: mondani, mondani, mondani kell a történeteket, egyiket a másik után, és akkor... És akkor: talán.”
― Pál Békés, A Félőlény
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