Dezider Banga
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Archival photo shows the Romani writer, screenwriter and producer Dezider Banga. The analogue photograph was taken on August 22, 1998 during the Roma festival. The venue of the festival was not mentioned with the analogue film, nor was the author of the photo. The photo was published in the Romani newspaper Romano nevo ľil no. 416-423/2000 on p. 8 under the article titled New Collection of Romani Poet.
Dezider Banga was born on August 24, 1939 in Hradiště. He attended both primary and secondary schools in Uhorske, near Poltár. He received his teaching education at the Pedagogical School in Krupina. He studied Slovak language and History as his majors at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He worked as a high school professor at the gymnasium in Trebišov and for the next ten years worked as a playwright of the Literary Editorial Office of Slovak Television in Košice. In 1979 he went to Bratislava and became an editor, and from 1986 he was the editor-in-chief of the social monthly Nová cesta, where he worked until the periodical's stopped publishing in 1990. He was the chairman of the civic association Romaňi kultura and the editor-in-chief of the cultural and social monthly Roma as well as of the children's magazine Luluďi, both published by the above mentioned association. He is also the active businessman – the owner of a printing house.
In 2009, he received a high state award - the Order of Ľudovít Štúr III. Class for extraordinary merits for development in the field of culture, especially Romani literature.
Source:
www.litcentrum.sk/autor/dezider-banga/zivotopis-autora
amariluma.romanokher.sk/encyclopedia/banga-dezider/
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 22. 08. 1998
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Dezider Banga general audience internal
