Albert Wass - Novels, Publications

Novels, Publications

In his 1939 work Farkasverem (Wolfpit), he described how the Trianon generation found their feet again: the unity of the presentation of social reality, the quest for meting out justice in history, together with ancient language, music, rhythm conquered the hearts of many readers in Hungary. In 1939, he was elected member of the Transylvanian Literary Society and the Kisfaludy Society. In 1940, he was awarded the Baumgarten Prize the second time.

His writings were patriotic but did not exacerbate the tensions between the Romanian and Hungarian population during the re-annexation of Northern Transylvania as a consequence of the Second Vienna Award. His works are not chauvinistic but always tending to be neutral, criticizing Hungarians too.

In 1942, he received the Klebelsberg Prize and in the same year on a memorable tour in Hungary he represented Transylvanian literature together with three of his peers. He was even elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as appreciation for his knowledge in forestry.

• 1934 Farkasverem (Wolfpit)
• 1940 Csaba
• 1940 Mire a fák megnőnek (By the Time the Trees Grow)
• 1940 Jönnek! (They Are Coming!)
• 1943 A kastély árnyékában (In the Castle's Shade)
• 1943 Egyedül a világ ellen (All Alone Against the World)
• 1943 Vérben és viharban (In Blood and Storm)
• 1944 Tavaszi szél és más színművek (Spring Breeze and Other Plays)
• 1945 Valaki tévedett (Somebody Made a Mistake) (short stories from 1945-49)
• 1945 A költő és a macska (The Poet and the Cat) (short stories)
• 1947 A rézkígyó (The Copper Snake)
• 1949 Adjátok vissza a hegyeimet! (English edition: Give Back My Mountains to Me!, 1970, Eric Massey)
• 1951 Ember az országút szélén (English edition: Man by the Side of the Road, 1984)
• 1952 Elvész a nyom (The Trail Perishes)
• 1953 Tizenhárom almafa (Thirteen Apple Trees)
• 1958 Az Antikrisztus és a pásztorok (The Antichrist and the Shepherds)
• 1959 A funtineli boszorkány (The Witch of Funtinel)
• 1964 Átoksori kísértetek (English edition: The Purple Ghosts of Damnation Row, 1964)
• 1965 Elvásik a veres csillag (English edition: The Red Star Wanes, 1965)
• 1967 Magukrahagyottak (English edition: Forsaken are the Brave,1967)
• 1974 Kard és kasza (Sword and Scythe)
• 1978 Halálos köd Holtember partján (English edition: Deadly Fog at Dead Man's Landing)
• 1982 Eliza and the House that Jack Built: Historical Novel (in English)
• 1985 Hagyaték (Inheritance)
• 1989 Te és a világ (You and the World) (short stories)

• Igazságot Erdélynek! (Justice for Transylvania)
• Józan magyar szemmel I-II. (Through the Eye of a Sober Hungarian)
• Karácsonyi üzenetek – A temető megindul (Messages from Christmas - the Cemetery Starts to Move)
• Magyar pólus (Hungarian Pole)
• Népirtás Erdélyben (Genocide in Transylvania)

• Hűség bilincsében (In the Chains of Fidelity)
• Hanky tanár úr (Professor Hanky)
• Se szentek, se hősök (Neither Saints nor Heroes)
• A szikla alatti férfi (The Man Below the Cliff)
• A sólyom hangja (The Voice of the Falcon)
• Csillag az éjszakában (Star in the Night)
• Black Hammock
• Magyar Számadás (Hungarian Accounts)
• Nem nyugaton kel fel a nap (The Sun Does Not Rise in the West)
• Voltam (I was/I have/had been)