Jenö Heltai

Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 08/10/1871

Date of death : 09/03/1957

City of birth : Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

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.