Joseph Bard (18 May 1892 – 1975), born József Diamant, was an expatriate Hungarian writer, known for a novel ''Shipwreck in Europe'' (1928) and

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written in English, and as a literary editor. He settled in the United Kingdom, where he was later known as ''Joseph Bard''. His background was Jewish and Hungarian.

Life

Bard was born in

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on 18 May 1892, and left Hungary in 1922.Library of Contress Name Authority File
/ref> He had two children by Jolan Weinberger: George (b. 1911) and Valentine (b. 1913). George was murdered in

the Holocaust in Hungary The Holocaust saw the dispossession, deportation and systematic murder of more than half of the Hungarian Jews, primarily after the German invasion of Hungary (1944), German occupation of Hungary in March 1944. Before that, several incidents too ...

. Valentine and her family emigrated to the U.S. after the

1956 Hungarian Revolution The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; ), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by ...

. Bard was married to

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from 1922 to 1927, and married the artist

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in 1940. He was a friend and supporter of

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Ita ...

, with whom he corresponded when Pound was confined to hospital.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bard, Joseph Hungarian writers 1892 births 1975 deaths Hungarian emigrants to the United Kingdom Hungarian Jews