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Béla Petsco

Bela Petsco, a native of Queens and an LDS convert, has authored Mormon short stories. "The Mustard Seed" appeared in Twenty-two Young Mormon Writers (ed. Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert, Provo, Utah: Communications Workshop, 1975). His Master's thesis, a combination novel story collection, Nothing Very Important and Other Stories appeared in 1979 (Provo: Meservydale Publishing) and was reissued in a trade paperback under Signature's Orion Books imprint in 1984. The novel was hailed as a milestone, the first view of missionary life from someone born and raised outside the Wasatch front. It was to be the second in a trilogy about Mihaly Agyar. The first novel was called Salem, a chapter of which appeared with that title in BYU's literary magazine the Wye in 1974 (8-12). Petsco destroyed and rewrote the manuscript for Salem more than once. He also writes poetry. "Carved in the Soft-stone of a Tomb" was published in Sunstone, January 1987, v.11, n.1, as part of Dennis Clark's article "Poems for the Natural and Social Worlds," p.20-25. Though silent for much of the ‘90s Petsco recently completed an opera libretto about Joseph Smith's last days, "And on to Carthage."
Bela Petsco
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4 Works by Béla Petsco

Title Role Year Genre
The Mustard Seed Author Short Story
And She Loved to Dance Author Poetry
Elegy Author Poetry
Nothing Very Important and Other Stories Author 1979 Short Story
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