 He was editor of Móra Ferenc Publishing House (1976–1980), secretary of Hungarian Writer’s Association (1981–85), co-editor, with Sándor Csoóri, of "Hitel" the first legally permitted oppositional periodical (1988–2007) and literary editor of the Hungarian Catholic Radio (2003–2007).In 1974, he married Marta Szabo; they had one son, and two daughters.From the very beginning his poetry was determined by the ideas of the two important facts of the Central-European history