- real witness and story
Georgius de Hungaria: Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequitia Turcorum, 1481, short story – translated into German by Luther
Ferenc Fóris Otrokocsi: Furor bestiae, manuscript – translated into Dutch and excerpted by A. van Poot, Naauwkeurig verhaal (1684) – Hungarian ref. galley slave
Bálint Csergő Kocsi –István Harsányi: Narratio brevis, manuscript – translated into Hungarian by Péter Bod (1738) – Hungarian ref. galley slave
Jean Marteilhe: Mémoires d’un Protestant, condamné aux galères de France pour cause de religion, 1757, short story
- fictional story
Cervantes: Don Quijote de la Mancha, 1605–1615, novel, chapter 22
A. Dumas Sr.: The Imposter, 1835, novel – based on the life story of a real-life galley slave, Gabriel Lambert
V. Hugo: The Last Day of a Condemned Man, 1829, long short story – opera, directed by R. Alagna
V. Hugo: Les Misérables, 1862, novel – film (1909), musical (1987)
Mihály Tompa: A gályarab fohásza (The Galley Slave’s Invocation) (1865), poem – https://mek.oszk.hu/01100/01101/html/02.htm#281
Mór Jókai: Az aranyember (The Golden Man), 1872, novel – the galley slavery is part of the story of a supporting character the cheat Tódor Krisztyán
Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur (Ben Hur, a Tale of a Christ), 1880, novel – film, directed by W. Wyler (1959)
Zsolt Harsányi: Karácsony a gályán (Christmas on the Galley), novella – https://mek.oszk.hu/14500/14546/14546.htm; most recently: Ideje van az olvasásnak. A reformáció öt évszázadának novelláiból (It’s Time to Read. From the Novellas of the Five Centuries of the Reformation) (Kálvin, 2017)
Ferenc Móra: [Két gályarab…] [Two galley slaves…], 1903, poem – https://felegyhazikozlony.eu/hirek/23384/akkor-lehet-igazan-az-en-asszonyom-ha-mase-lesz
Lajos Haraszthy: A gályarab (The galley slave), 1911, poem – http://misc.bibl.u-szeged.hu/1092/1/kultura_002_007_384.pdf
Olga Farkas: Gályarab (The galley slave), 1923, poems
György Moldova: A negyven prédikátor (The forty preachers) (1973), novel – https://konyvtar.dia.hu/html/muvek/MOLDOVA/moldova00070_kv.html
László T. Németh: Gályarabok a huszadik századból: Beszélgetés Papp Vilmossal (Galley Slaves from the Twentieth Century: Conversation with Vilmos Papp), Reformátusok Lapja, 53(2009), 8.