Zoltan Hegyi Zoltan Hegyi i(A48126 works by)
Born: Established: 1911
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Hungary,
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Eastern Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: 1986
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1964
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BiographyHistory

Zoltan Hegyi was born in Fehértemplom, Hungary. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of Debrecen in 1933 and worked as a chemical engineer in chemical research laboratories in Hungary. From 1944 to 1949 he worked as an interpreter in English, Hungarian and German with the UNRRA and IRO in Germany. He then lived and worked in Brazil for the 15 years from 1949 to 1962, obtaining Brazilian citizenship. From 1964 to 1976 he worked in Australia as a chemist, also spending two years in Papua New Guinea at this time. He was a member of PEN, the Australian Society of Authors, the Árpád Academy in the USA and the Association of Hungarian artists in Canberra and was the author of books on photography and, in Portuguese, on winemaking. His work was performed in Hungarian.

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Notes

  • Author writes in these languages:HUNGARIAN, ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE
  • For details of works by this author in Hungarian and published for his arrival in Australia, which do not currently appear in AustLit, see A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers by Sneja Gunew et al (Geelong: Centre for Studies in Literary Education, Humanities, Deakin University, 1992).
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