Lajos Nagy (writer)

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Lajos Nagy (5 February 1883 – 28 October 1954) was a Hungarian writer.{{cite web |url=http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/ABC10888/11049.htm |title=Nagy Lajos |language=Hungarian |publisher=Hungarian biographical lexicon |accessdate=2017-11-28 }} His work covered a number of genres, including travel literature.{{cite book|author=Wendy Bracewell|title=Orientations: An Anthology of East European Travel Writing, Ca. 1550-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k3EcXPgSd-sC&pg=PA251|year=2009|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-9776-10-4|pages=251–252}} "He came up with his brief, humoristic stories about animals in the beginning of the 1920s and in 1922 a collection of these short humoresques was published under the title Nonsensical Natural History (Képtelen természetrajz)."Mercs, István. 2017. “A lábatlan ember például egyet se botlik...” Nagy Lajos Képtelen természetrajz című művéről. [‘A Legless Man, for Instance, Stumbles Not at All...’ An Essay on Lajos Nagy’s Volume, Entitled Nonsensical Natural History.] Certamen IV: 149-156. He joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1945 and is considered to be one of the prominent writers in the style of socialist realism in Hungary.