Kristály István

He completed elementary school in Szombathely and teacher training in Čakovec, where he later became a teacher. At the beginning of World War I, he was taken prisoner by the Russians, released four years later, and then moved to Pécs. In the early 1920s, he emigrated to Yugoslavia, teaching in Padej, and from 1934, serving as director. During World War II, he was abducted by Serbian soldiers and disappeared without a trace. He was a contributor to Mi Irodalmunk and published in Hétről-Hétré. He belonged to the Kalangya circle, and between 1934 and 1940, he was one of the most frequently published contributors to the journal. He also wrote stage scenes. He appeared in the almanac Vagyunk (1928), the 1929 Almanach of Bácsmegyei Napló, A Mi Irodalmunk Almanachja (1931), and the anthologies Ákácok alatt (1933) and A diófa árnyékában (1942).