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Lajos Zilahy (March 27, 1891 − Dec.

1, 1974) was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta (called Salonta in Romania) in Transylvania, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, a province in Austria-Hungary, he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War,^[1] in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front - an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also active in film.

His 1928 novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice.

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His play The General was filmed as The Virtuous Sin in 1930.

Edited Híd (The Bridge) 1940-1944, an art periodical. Opposed both fascism and communism. In 1939 he established a film studio named Pegazus, which operated until the end of 1943.

Pegazus produced motion pictures and Zilahy dir