Geza Giaoni

Geza Giaoni

Geza Giaoni was a Hungarian poet who wrote for the literary magazine Nyugat in Budapest and began a long-term literary competition with the leading Hungarian poet at the time, Ndele Adi. In his second poetry collection "Sad Eyes" published in 1909, he criticized Adi. In November 1907, Gioni was conscripted into the Austro Hungarian army, and in 1912, he was called up to actively serve in the Balkan Wars. As a response to the war, Giovanni wrote the pacifist poem "Caesar, I Don't Leave" and died in a Russian prisoner of war camp during World War I.