Áron Tamási
(Farkaslaka, September 20, 1897 – Budapest, May 26, 1966)
A Kossuth Prize-winning writer. In 1999, he was posthumously elected a member of the Digital Literary Academy.
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"I have a village. Sometimes, when I wrap my soul around myself, it feels as if I had built it back when I dwelled within God's intention. At other times, I feel it is my parent, who conceived me on a starry evening after a sorrowful yet whimsical tale," wrote Áron Tamási in one of his confessions.
Born in Farkaslaka, near his mother town of Székelyudvarhely, on September 20, 1897, he was the child of the spirited Dénes Tamási and the smiling-faced Márta Fancsali. At the age of thirteen, his left hand was severely injured, rendering him unfit for fieldwork and allowing him to begin his education in Székelyudvarhely, and later, after serving as a soldier during World War I, in Kolozsvár (Cluj).
During his brief stay in America (1923–25), in a distant and foreign land, he discovered the poetic and literary world that would permeate his entire oeuvre. "The entire folkloric depth of the Székely soul stirred within him—the traditions he carried with him and absorbed in his childhood, the Székely humor, spirit, and mindset, the aesthetic delight in the weaving of words and the construction of sentences, and most of all, the human dignity of his people," described Géza Féja, a friend and the author of the first monograph on Tamási's work.
(Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia)