Cornel Lengyel

Cornel Adam Lengyel (January 2, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American poet, historian, playwright and translator. He received the Maxwell Anderson Award in 1950 for his play The Atom Clock.

Cornel Adam (Lengyel) was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1915. In 1920, his family moved to Budafok, Hungary. Cornel became fluent in Magyar. In 1922, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1925, his family moved to Hollywood.

In 1930, he won a $500 award for his prize essay on Les Miserables in an international competition. In 1933, his first book of poems Thirty Pieces was published. These early successes set the stage for a life of poetry and letters. He said, much later in life, “The most improbable, impractical thing I can think of is being a poet. Yet I am still writing poetry. It's like an adolescent vice. It persists through life.”

In 1935, his first poetic drama The World's My Village won the Berkeley Playcrafters Production Prize and was later published in Poet Lore. From 1937, as playwright for the Federal Theatre, his Bridge-Builders was performed with chorus and symphony at the Veterans' Auditorium in San Francisco. In 1939 and 1940 he worked for the WPA on the History of Music in San Francisco series.

Lengyel

Lengyel (literally: "Pole", German: Lendl) is the highest inhabited village in Tolna County, Hungary. It is located between Bonyhád and Dombóvár.

Lengyel culture is named after the village.

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After approximately 200 years of residency, Lengyel's ethnic German Danube Swabian population was dispossessed of its property and forcibly removed to Germany following the end of World War II.

Lengyel (disambiguation)

Lengyel means "Pole" in Hungarian. The word may refer also a Polish person of Jewish descent, and was a common surname for Shepards

Lengyel (surname)

Lengyel is a Hungarian surname (meaning Pole), it may refer to: