Jenö Heltai

Info

Role

Actor | Writer

Date of birth

08/10/1871

Date of death

09/03/1957

Place of birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Jenö Heltai

Biography

He studied law, and became a journalist, but he was a poet and writer too. He was a theatre director (Vígszínház), and he was a director of Athenaeum print factory. In 1892 he published his first book of poems, the Modern dalok. He liked Budapest, the Hungarian capital, and many of his works take place there. He had done some translations too. He used first the "mozi" word, which is a short word for the cinema in Hungary. Many of his works have been adapted to film.