Biography
Source of the photo: Híd. 2001/7–8.
He completed primary school and the Piarist gymnasium (1920) in his hometown. Between 1920 and 1927, he worked as a commercial clerk and accountant (among other places, at the sparkling wine factory in Bácsszőlős). After winning the short story and then the novel competition of the Subotica-based Napló, he embarked on a career in journalism. From 1928 until the end of his life, he was a staff member of editorial offices. From 1928 to 1929, he worked at Friss Újság in Senta, where he launched the short-lived newspaper A Mi Világunk with Endre Csányi. Between 1929 and 1937, he was an assistant editor, then responsible editor, at Új Hírek in Sombor. From 1937 to 1941, he was a staff member of Napló in Subotica, and from 1941 to 1944, of Délbácskai Magyarság. Between 1944 and 1951, he was a founding editor and staff member of Szabad Vajdaság (after a name change, Magyar Szó). From 1951 to 1955, he was the editor-in-chief of Híd. From 1956 to 1973, he was a publicist for Magyar Szó. He appeared (as Markovich) in Vagyunk (1928) and the 1929 Almanach of Bácsmegyei Napló, as well as in the anthologies Ákácok alatt (1933), A diófa árnyékában (1942), Délvidéki elbeszélők (n.d.), and Téglák, barázdák (1946). In his honor, a biennial short story competition was announced by Magyar Szó from 1976 to 1998. In December 1999, a Mihály Majtényi conference was held in Novi Sad. From the 1990s until the end of the decade, the Ferenc Fehér Circle of Book Lovers organized the Mihály Majtényi Writers' Camp for primary school students. He is featured in the volume Mai magyar dráma (Tankönyvkiadó Intézet, Novi Sad, 1988).
