Miklós Radnóti was born in 1909 into a Jewish family in Budapest. By the outbreak of the Second World War he was achieving recognition as one of the leading young poets writing in Hungarian. He was repeatedly drafted to serve in forced labour detachments and was executed during the last of these in 1944.

Miklós Radnóti's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry, over a period of two years.