Lajos zilahy biography definition

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Lajos Zilahy (March 27, − Dec. 1, ) was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta (called Salonta in Romania) in Transylvania, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, a province in Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War,^[1] in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front - an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also active in film. His novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His play The General was filmed as The Virtuous Sin in

Edited Híd (The Bridge) , an art periodical. Opposed both fascism and communism. In he established a film studio named Pegazus, which operated until the end of Pegazus produced motion pictures and Zilahy directed some of them. In , his play Fatornyok ( Lajos zilahy.