Sandor Puski opened his first book store in Budapest in 1938. The following year he founded the Magyar Elet (Hungarian Life) Publishing House, which mainly issued works by Hungarian populist writers. In 1943 he organised a meeting for intellectuals at Balatonszarszo (W Hungary) to discuss the prospects for Hungary's democratic development.
His publishing house was nationalised during the communist rule, in 1950. Twelve years later he was imprisoned under trumped-up charges. He and his wife emigrated to the United States in 1970 and founded a publishing house in New York in 1975.
They returned to Budapest in 1989 and he opened a bookstore.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
