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The Konstantin Obradovic Foundation said Végel was recognised for his efforts in Serbia and the region to develop inter-ethnic and intercultural tolerance and understanding. The jury?s decision to award Végel the prize was unanimous.
Végel will be awarded the prize on Sunday.
Végel was born in Srbobran on February 1, 1941. He graduated from the Hungarian department of Novi Sad University and the philosophy department of Belgrade University. He worked as a journalist and editor until the Milosevic regime removed him from the post at Novi Sad Television in 1992. He started out as a writer in the first generation of New Symposium and gained fame for his controversial book The Memories of a Macro in 1967. Several of his dramas have been performed in theatres in Serbia and Hungary and he has also published volumes of essay and short stories.
In Hungary he was awarded the Ady Endre prize in 1993, the Déry Tibor prize in 1995 and the Füst Milán prize in 2003. He received the February 1 prize, the highest award granted by the city of Novi Sad, in 2004 and the Pulitzer memorial prize in the following year. Also in 2005, he was awarded the Hungarian Republic?s Order of Merit Officer?s Cross in recognition of his diverse activities in contemporary Hungarian literature in Vojvodina. He received the Kossuth prize in 2009.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
