Komáromi József Sándor

Source of the photo: 7 Nap. November 10, 1972.

He graduated from high school in Nagybecskerek (Zrenjanin), then studied humanities in Belgrade, where in 1933 he was one of the founders and the first president of the Bolyai Farkas Student Association for Hungarian university students studying there. In 1927, he was a seminarian, and in 1929, he organized a football club. In 1931, under the name Apfelbaum, he won first prize in the Napló poetry competition. In 1932, he launched a youth magazine titled Zivatar (Storm) and attempted to publish a weekly newspaper. In 1935, he became a staff member of Reggeli Újság (Morning Newspaper), then a correspondent in Óbecse (Bečej). He managed the family leather trade. In 1936, he published a newspaper titled A Hét (The Week), which was banned after four issues. In the late 1930s, he moved to Budapest and, with the money received for the Óbecse shop, embarked on a literary venture. “He first wanted to join Erdélyi Helikon, then tried with Zsigmond Móricz’s Kelet Népe, and finally ended up at Lajos Zilahy’s illustrated weekly Híd” (Zoltán Kalapis). After 1945, he was an employee of a wholesale company in Yugoslavia, but also worked as a librarian and then as an agent. Between 1950 and 1961, he was the head of the advertising department of Magyar Szó. From 1961, he was a freelance writer.