Ödön Salamon (
Érsekújvár Hungary
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(today Nové Zamsky in
Slovakia
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) 17. February 1864 –
Budapest
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Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen
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,
Austria-Hungary
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6. November 1903) is a Hungarian journalist.
His life
He finished secondary school in
Budapest
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and started working as a journalist. He travelled to
Paris
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in 1888, where he spent three years. He was the reporter of
Vasárnapi Újság and Egyetértés. He wrote the history of the Hungarian Society of Paris. After going back to Budapest in 1891, he wrote
pocket-books and
interview
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s. These publications made him well known. He worked for the
Hungarian State Opera House
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for two and a half years.
His works
* Józan szerelmesek. Bpest, 1893. (Elbeszélések. Ism. Élet 111. l., Vasárnapi Ujság 2. sz.)
* A párbajhős. Bpest, 1897. (Monologok 65.)
* Kocsin és gyalog. Bpest, 1897. (Ism. M. Hirlap 343. sz., Hét 50., Vasárnapi Lapok 37., M. Kritika 1898. 8. sz.)
* Szervusz! Magánjelenet. Bpest, 1897. (Monologok 68.)
* A hosszú ruha. Bpest, 1898. és 1901. (Monologok gyűjteménye 5. és 96.)
* Vörös és fekete. (Monte-Carlo és a Riviera.) Bpest, 1900. (Az Uránia látványos darabja 2000 péld. nyom. Ism. Vasárnapi Ujság 44. sz.).
* Egyetlen szó miatt. Bpest, 1903. (Monologok 111.).
* Gondolatok és ötletek. Az előszót írta Bródy Sándor. Bpest, 1904.
Sources
*Szinyei József: Magyar írók élete és munkái
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People from Nové Zámky
Hungarian journalists