Moricz, Zsigmond

Zsigmond Moricz was born in 1879 in the Tiszacsecse region of eastern Hungary to a poor peasant family. Author of over twenty novels and many more novellas and stories, he is most famous for his work Be Faithful Unto Death (Legy jo mindhalalig, 1921), the touching story of a schoolboy growing up in post-WWI Hungary. Moricz died in Budapest in 1942.