At the beginning of the 1930s, he sent some short articles to the world famous editor, -Kálmán Kittenberger (1881-1964) Africa explorer-, of the Nimrod Hunting Magazine, who took notice of his writings. During his writing carrier he had been also helped and supported by Kálmán Csathó (1881-1964) and Rudolf Láng (his pseudonym was: Hawk), (1881-1963). From 1936, other newspapers started to publish his short stories as well. He won the first prize with his first two novels (“The Testament of the Koppány Castle Agha,” 1937) and (“Cottars”, 1939) at a national novel competition. He lost his job in Ajka in 1941 because of his literary work and moved to Budapest. In 1940, his play: “Day Breaking” created a stir in the country. Successful films were made from his three scripts: “István Kovács Dr.” (1942), “Jealousy” (1943) and “Golden Peacock” (1943). These films brought him a nationwide recognition. His novels were published after one another and he was also making documentaries. Unfortunately, his life became more and more difficult after 1945. We know from the reminiscences of his son that during the Communist Regime he was beaten once so heavily by the State Security Department that he lost his sight for his left eye. He had to go through all of these because he was not willing to rewrite a section of his book titled: “Cotters”, where he was describing the red terror of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in a genuine way. In 1949 he was dismissed from the ministry, where he worked for. Following that, he was neglected-like many other writers at that time-and his books were not published.His family had several tragedies: her daughter, who was a nun, left the country in 1949 and his son had to flee from Hungary too in the December of 1956 because he took part in the revolution.

In order to be able to make a living he worked as an unskilled labourer, for example: he was shovelling wheat on tows transporting grain on the River Danube. Fortunately, they were not relocated with his wife, in spite of the fact that at the beginning of the 1950s he offered his spacious dining room of his flat to the church for using it as a chapel. From 1952 until 1954 he was working as a course lecturer and teaching fishermen in Kunszentmárton. His books were published again from 1955. From the 1960s, he was acknowledged as a successful writer again and his books were sold in a large number. In 1970, when he was celebrating his 70birthday, he was granted the gold medal of the Order of Labour appreciating his literary work. Five moths later, he passed away unexpectedly. His first resting place was in Budapest at the Farkasréti cemetery, later his wife was buried also there. In 2004, he was reburied in Gölle, so he finally arrived home...