Ferenc Bakos is a member of the “Péter” generation of writers that emerged in connection with Géza Ottlik and his masterpiece, The School on the Border . He is the creator of the new generation of writers born after World War II that brought a prose revolution to Hungarian literature, and which also includes Esterházy, Lengyel, Nádas, Hajnóczy, as well as Bólya and Dobai. Initially, he himself wrote his short stories and narratives under the name Péter in the journals Kortárs , Élet és Irodalom , the Pozsony Magyar Szó , the Magyar Nemzet , the Alföld and the Életünk . His first short story, entitled Köpőmester , was published in Élet és Irodalom in 1970. The author was introduced as Péter Bakos in the May 1972 issue of Kortárs . His first collection of short stories, Csonttollú madarak tele, published by Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó in 1975, brought the writer national recognition and recognition. His writer friend Ervin Lázár followed his work with great attention, highly appreciating his sensitive capture of the relationship and shared moments between adults and children. 

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At the suggestion of István Örkény, who praised his one-minute plays, he received the Zsigmond Móricz scholarship in 1976 and turned to drama. In that year, his first absurd drama, The Mráz Family , was published in Mozgó Világ at the encouragement of Péter Lengyel , and at the same time he also completed his drama Tristan and Isolde at the request of the Pécs National Theatre . In 1988, at the request of the Csiky Gergely Theatre in Kaposvár, he wrote the plays Pécel – Paris and then Mata Hari . His audio play Dew Falls on the Peony, which was played for years on the Hungarian Radio, stood out for its popularity . 

The experience of the desert, fueled by personal, real-life experiences, is unique in Hungarian literature. As an electrical engineer, the world of experiences from his trips to the oil fields of the Middle East: Kuwait, Iraq, Libya and Egypt, and his return home, as well as Krúdy's stories, shaped his Sinbad stories, which appeared in the columns of Élet és Irodalom , Kortárs , Magyar Nemzet , Új Írás , Új Tükör and Somogy from 1984 onwards, and which were transformed into a short novella, a standalone volume, in 1993 , entitled Sinbadia . 

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Ferenc Bakos found his own voice especially in the field of lyric poetry and created something extraordinary. According to the orientalist writer Gábor Terebess, he is the best-known Hungarian haiku poet abroad. His haikus are translated into various languages ​​all over the world. He is the popularizer of the Japanese poetic form in Hungary. We can mostly thank him for the renaissance of haiku writing in our country. 

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Haiku and his translations were published with expert care by the writer András Fodor, the former editor of the region's literary magazine, in 1982, in Somogy . His first haiku was published in Japan in 1989 in English and Japanese by Szató Kazuo, a professor at Vaszeda University in Tokyo. According to the February 1990 issue of Nagyvilág , Ferenc Bakos was the first Hungarian haiku poet whose haiku found a home in Japan. In 1990, he was the only Hungarian founding member of the Tokyo-based International Haiku Association . He is an external contributor to the Nagyvilág magazine. In the 2010s, he was one of the hundred most creative haiku poets in Europe.  

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He has won several prestigious foreign awards from Canada to Japan, and his haiku has been awarded the title of “Honorable”. In 2009, he was among the top nine out of 13,000 applicants from 31 countries in the Ito En Tea Company haiku competition. He won second place in the international section of the haiku competition of the island’s most important daily newspaper, The Mainichi Daily News , twice, in 2009 and 2014. In 2011, he was an invited speaker at the 6th International Haiku Festival and the 2nd Tokyo Poetry Festival held at Meiji University in Tokyo.