Kelemen Mikes
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Kelemen Mikes, born in Zabola in 1690 he became freedom fighter against the Habsburgs, escaped to Poland, France and eventually Turkey. He is referred to as the "Hungarian Goethe" who became famous after writing "Letters from Turkey" in Rodosto where he lived in exile with the Transylvanian Prince Rákóczi until 1761. With his letters from Rodosto, Kelemen Mikes laid the foundations of the Hungarian prosaic literature, and he is regarded as the first Hungarian prosaic author.
