Csuka Zoltán

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In his childhood, he lived in Bečej, Baja, Subotica (1906–1911), Topánfalva, Mohács, then moved to Pécs (1915), where he graduated in 1920. He worked as a tram driver, emigrated to Yugoslavia in 1921, edited newspapers, and was a journalist. In 1933, he was expelled and returned to Pest. He published a minority review titled Láthatár (1933–34). In 1945, he became the responsible editor of Új Dunántúl, and in 1946, the head of the press department of the Ministry of Religion and Public Education, the executive secretary of the Hungarian–Yugoslav Society, and the editor of the society's newspaper (Déli Csillag). In 1950, he was sentenced to fifteen years on fabricated charges, but was released and rehabilitated five years later. He lived by writing and translating. Apart from a brief stay in Pécs, he was a resident of Érdliget, where he founded the Jószomszédság Library in 1976.