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He was born on 1 January 1954 in Berehovo, Transcarpathia, in the former Soviet Union. Thanks to the central Moscow time zone, his birth was dated on the second day of his birth. His parents were Pál Finta and Julianna Szöllősi. On his father’s side he comes from a family of two generations of craftsmen, on his mother’s side his ancestors are farmers from Tiszántú. She lived in her hometown until the age of thirty-seven, after which she moved to Hungary with her husband, Dr. István Szabó, a family doctor, their two children, István Keve Szabó and Eszter Szabó Szabó, and her husband’s family. She has been living in Sárospatak since 1997.
He completed his primary school education at the Berehovo School No. 6, where he was greatly influenced by his Hungarian teacher, the textbook and methodological writer Gizella Drávai. He graduated from the Kossuth Lajos High School No. 4 in Berehove.
He started writing at the age of seventeen. After graduating, he started a literary studio (a kind of “writing school” organised by Irén Balogh, a journalist, and under the professional guidance of Gizella Drávai), which was attached to the editorial office of the former Red Flag daily newspaper in Berehovo, as a member of the József Attila Literary Studio (1971-1987) in Uzhhorod, and then of the József Attila Creative Community (1988-1990), he was involved in the literary life of the region, the latter of which he was a founding member and member of the board of trustees.
Since 1972 he has published continuously, mostly poetry. Initially, his writings appeared in Transcarpathian newspapers and periodicals (Red Flag, Carpathian True Word, Calendar, yearbooks). As a resident of Transcarpathia and afterwards, his writings can be found regularly in Hungarian literary and cultural journals (Forrás, Alföld, Mozgó Világ, Napjaink, Holnap, Magyar Élet, Hitel, Magyar Napló, Jel, Ezredvég, Irodalmi Páholy, Zempléni Múzsa, Agria, Partium, Együtt, Dunai Limes, Kortárs, Spanyolnátha, etc.)
In 1978, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of the Uzhhorod State University with a degree in Hungarian philology and a degree in language and literature. Afterwards, he studied Italian at the INYAZ College in Moscow, but did not graduate, and then enrolled in German at the same college in 1984-85. He did not subsequently use his foreign language studies to any advantage.
In his hometown, he initially worked as a teacher in various schools. Due to the saturation of the teaching profession, he abandoned his studies and became a window dresser under the guidance and patronage of Anna Horváth, a sculptor-ceramist from Berehovo. At this time he was seriously interested in fine arts, including painting. For ten years he regularly participated in city and regional exhibitions.
It was only in 2004, in Hungary, that he returned to teaching. He taught for two years in a vocational secondary school in Sátoraljaújhely, and from 2007 until his retirement, he was a teaching assistant at the teacher training college in Sárospatak (the institution is now, from May 2021, the Tokaj-Hegyalja University).
As a college lecturer, he was intensively involved in literary history. After graduating from the Doctoral School of Literary Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Miskolc, he received his diploma in 2008. His research area is the unfinished and unexplored oeuvre of László Sáfáry, a poet born in Miskolc, under the supervision of Lóránt Kabdebó, Professor Emeritus. With the help of the bequest of the Petőfi Literary Museum, he collected and edited the previously published poems of László Sáfáry, which were I am among you and published it at his own expense. On the life and work of the poet, who disappeared at a young age in the Don Bend I’m going home his monograph was published with the support of the NKA.
His poems were often set to music. The more significant arrangements are associated with Lajos Bárdos, Pál Rózsa, the Transcarpathian Credo ensemble (including József Ivaskovics) and József Dinnyés.
Written in the 90s Pairs In 2008, the well-known librarian Anna Legeza Ilona created Éva Finta’s website and maintained it until her death in 2011. When the website was launched, Jánosné Martinák, a teacher and writer, helped her in presenting the author’s texts and collecting her writings and appearances. After the death of Ilona Legeza, the digital material was updated by Péter Martinék, teacher.
A full list of his publications until his retirement in 2017 is available in the Hungarian Archives of Scientific Works.
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