József Debreczeni was a Hun­gar­i­an-lan­guage nov­el­ist, poet, and jour­nal­ist who spent most of his life in Yugoslavia. He was an edi­tor of the Hun­gar­i­an dai­ly Napló and of Űnnep in Budapest, from which he was dis­missed due to anti-Jew­ish leg­is­la­tion. On May 1, 1944, he was deport­ed to Auschwitz after three years as a forced labor­er. He was lat­er a con­trib­u­tor to the Hun­gar­i­an media in the Yugoslav region of Vojvo­d­i­na, as well as lead­ing Bel­grade news­pa­pers. He was award­ed the Híd Prize, the high­est dis­tinc­tion in Hun­gar­i­an lit­er­a­ture in the for­mer Yugoslavia.