# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lajos-zilahy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:11:49.873Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lajos-zilahy"
name: "Lajos Zilahy"
slug: "lajos-zilahy"
description: "Lajos Zilahy was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front – an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners."
tagline: "Hungarian novelist and playwright (1891–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lajos_Zilahy_-_Hungarian_Writer_-_The_ten-year-old_Hungarian_Radio_Album_1935.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1891-03-27"
deathDate: "1974-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.206896551724138
  historical:           20.89391866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump