Mihály Lakatos pursued his higher education between 1989 and 1993 at Babeș–Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca and completed his studies in 1995 at József Attila University in Szeged. He also earned a pre-degree certificate (absolutorium) in the PhD program in Modern Hungarian Literature at the same institution.

He worked for over two decades in various senior roles within the Ministry of Culture.

Mihály Lakatos is a József Attila Prize-winning poet, writer, and literary translator, and a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit..