László Kovács (writer)


László Kovács is a Hungarian Slovene-language writer, amateur actor, and beekeeper. Kovács was born in Vashegyalja, Vas county, Hungary. His father, Vilmos Kovács, is of Hungarian descent, and his mother was a Slovene, Mária Zankócs. In the 1970s and 2000s, he taught in Apátistvánfalva. Between 1998 and 2006 he was the mayor of Apátistvánfalva. Kovács led the amateur theatrical company Veseli Pajdaši after Irén Barbér's death and authored a few comedies in Prekmurje Slovene, and with his group received the national prize A Nemzetiségi Hagyományok Átörökítéséért in 2010 at the ARCUSFEST international theater festival in Budapest.
Kovács is also a recognized beekeeper in the Slovene region of Hungary, who uses the old traditional apiary methods and produces some specialty honey.

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