Ferenc Talányi (born Ferenc Temlin, or ''Talanji'') (23 May 1883 – 9 July 1959) was a Slovene writer, journalist, and painter from

Prekmurje Prekmurje (; Prekmurje Slovene: ''Prèkmürsko'' or ''Prèkmüre''; ) is a geographically, linguistically, culturally, and ethnically defined region of Slovenia, settled by Slovenes and a Hungarians in Slovenia, Hungarian minority, lying betwee ...

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Ferenc Talányi was born in Brezovci, near Puconci in

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as the son of Mihály Temlin and Katarina Frankó. Both his parents were Lutheran peasants. He studied the catering trade in

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, and later in

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. In his youth Temlin changed his surname to ''Talányi.'' He worked as a restaurateur in the Slovene March (

), in

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, and in

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, while also working as editor of the almanac ''Dober pajdás kalendárium.'' In 1919, Talányi supported the

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, was a member of the communist party and supported the worker's movement in Prekmurje. After the downfall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he moved to the Štajerska region. He worked as an editor of several newspapers and distanced himself from the Magyarization policy; he even wrote ''Dober pajdás'' in Slovene. He was arrested in 1930, as the region was now under Yugoslav rule, and his communist past played against him. In 1941, after the Magyar occupation of Prekmurje he briefly wrote ''Dober pajdás'' in the Prekmurje dialect but then joined the communist partisans under the pseudonym ''Očka'' (Papa). He was captured in January 1945 and convicted for imprisonment in German prisons, but only served a few months. After

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he was a member of several political organizations in

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. In 1955, he published an article in ''Pomurski vestnik'' in which Talányi emphasized his communist past. He died in 1959 in

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