László Darvasi (born 17 October 1962) is a Hungarian poet, playwright and columnist. He also writes under the pseudonym Ernő Szív.
He was the winner of the Attila József Prize in 1998 and the Sándor Márai Prize in 2008.
Life and work
Darvasi was born in Törökszentmiklós. He graduated from the Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College in Szeged in 1986. He worked as a primary school teacher until 1989 before turning to writing and editorial work in the 1990s.
He published his first volume of poetry in 1991, followed by a number of prose works, including A könnymutatványosok legendája ("The Legend of the Tearjerkers", 1999), Virágzabálók ("The Flower Eaters", 2009) and Neandervölgyiek ("Neanderthals", 2024).