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Gyula Illys was a Hungarian poet and novelist. He was one of the socalled npi writers, named so because they aimed to show160 propelled by strong sociological interest and leftwing convictions160 the disadvantageous conditions of their native land.
He was born the son of Jnos Ills and Ida Kllay in Tolna County. His father belonged to a rich gentry family, but his mother came from the most deprived segment of society, agricultural servants. He was their third child and spent his first nine years at his birthplace, where he finished his primary school years and when his family moved to Simontornya, he continued his education at grammar schools there and Dombvr and Bonyhd . In 1926 his parents separated, and he moved to the capital with his mother. He continued senior high school at the Budapest Munkcsy Mihly street gimnazium and at the Izabella Street Kereskedelmi school . In 1921 he graduated. From 1918 to 1919 he took part in various leftwing student and youth workers movements, being present at an attack on Romanian forces in Szolnok during the Hungarian Republic of Councils. OnDecember 1920 his first poem was published anonymously in the Social Democrat daily Npszava.
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