Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Orbán, Ottó, 1936-2002, poet
Description area
Dates of existence
1936-2002
History
Born in 1936, Otto Orban saw his father taken off to prison in 1944, and was sent to an institute a year later, where he made his name as a child-prodigy poet. By the 1970s he had changed from the 'wunderkid' to the 'enfant terrible' of Hungarian poetry. ... Read more