List: Hungarian writers

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•  Elie Wiesel

  Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born September 30, 1928) is a writer, professor at Boston University, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.. His diverse range of other writings offer powerful and poetic contributions to literature, theology, and his own articulation of Jewish spirituality today.

  

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•  György Dalos

  György Dalos (b. September 23, 1943 in Budapest) is a Hungarian Jewish writer. He is best known for his novel 1985, and The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin. He was head of the Institute for Hungarian Culture in Berlin. Since 2009 György Dalos ist member of the International Council of Austrian Service Abroad. 1985 is a sequel to George Orwell's 1984.

  

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•  János Batsányi

  János Batsányi (May 11, 1763, Tapolca - May 12, 1845, Linz) was a Hungarian poet. In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars". In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of the Hungarian city of Kassa, and there, in conjunction with other two Hungarian patriots, edited the Magyar Museum, which was suppressed by the government in 1792.

  

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•  Max Nordau

  Max Simon Nordau (July 29, 1849 - January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses. As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation (1883), Degeneration (1892), and Paradoxes (1896).

  

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•  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay (born 30 January 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American author of Hungarian origin who writes on feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name and religious name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest. She is the High Priestess and the founding mother of the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, the first feminist, women-only, witches' coven.

  

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•  Susan Polgar

  Susan Polgar (born April 19, 1969, as Polgár Zsuzsanna and often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess player. She is also a chess writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Texas Tech University. She was stripped of her membership in the United States Chess Federation on August 7, 2009, and thereby lost her seat on its Executive Board. On the July 1984 FIDE Rating List, at age 15, she was the top-ranked woman player in the world.

  

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•  Ephraim Kishon

  Ephraim Kishon was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.

  

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•  Árpád Göncz

  Árpád Göncz (born February 10, 1922 in Budapest) is a Hungarian liberal politician and former President of the Republic (May 2, 1990–August 4, 2000). He graduated in law from the Budapest Pázmány Péter University of Arts and Sciences in 1944. He has also worked as a writer and has published several novels, plays and essays, and also translated a great number of prose works from English to Hungarian.

  

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•  Karl-Maria Kertbeny

  Karl-Maria Kertbeny or Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl-Maria Benkert) (February 28, 1824–January 23, 1882) was born in Vienna, the son of a writer and painter. He was an Austrian-born Hungarian journalist, memoirist and human rights campaigner who coined the word homosexual. The Benkert family moved to Budapest when he was a child — he was equally at home in Austria, Germany and Hungary.

  

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•  Tivadar Soros

  Tivadar Soros was a Hungarian Jewish doctor, lawyer, author and editor. He was the father of George Soros. He fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping. He founded the Esperanto literary magazine Literatura Mondo (Literary World) in 1922 and edited it until 1924.

  

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•  Gitta Sereny

  Gitta Sereny (born 13 March 1921) is an Austrian-born British biographer, historian and journalist whose writing focuses mainly on the Holocaust and child abuse. She is the stepdaughter of the economist Ludwig von Mises.

  

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•  István Széchenyi

  Count István Széchenyi, in Hungarian: Gróf Széchenyi István (21 September 1791 – 8 April 1860) was a Hungarian politician, theorist and writer, one of the greatest statesmen of Hungarian history. István is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen.

  

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•  Béla Balázs

  Béla Balázs (4 August 1884, Szeged – 17 May 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet. He was the son of German-born parents, adopting his nom de plume in newspaper articles written before his 1902 move to Budapest, where he studied Hungarian and German at the Eötvös Collegium.

  

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•  József Eötvös

  Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (13 September 1813 – 2 February 1871), Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Baron Ignacz Eötvös and the baroness Lilian, was born at Buda. After an excellent education he entered the civil service as a vice-notary, and was early introduced to political life by his father. He also spent many years in western Europe, assimilating the new ideas both literary and political, and making the acquaintance of the leaders of the Romantic school.

  

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•  List of Hungarian writers

  

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•  George Mikes

  George Mikes (1912–1987) (pronounced Mik-esh) was a Hungarian-born British author most famous for his humorous commentaries on various countries.

  

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•  Sándor Márai

  Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) (April 11, 1900 – February 22, 1989) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.

  

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•  György Konrád

  György (George) Konrád (born April 2, 1933) is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. He was a dissident under the communist regime.

  

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•  Ferenc Kazinczy

  Ferenc Kazinczy (October 27, 1759 – August 23, 1831) was a Hungarian author, the most indefatigable agent in the regeneration of the Magyar language and literature at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. His name is today connected to the extensive Language Reform of the 19th century, when thousands of words were coined or revived, enabling the Hungarian language to keep up with scientific progress and become an official language of the nation in 1844.

  

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•  George Fejer

  George Fejer (April 23, 1766 – July 2, 1851), Hungarian author, was born at Keszthely, in the county of Zala. He studied philosophy at Pest, and theology at Pressburg; eventually, in 1808, he obtained a theological professorship at Pest University. Ten years later (1818) he became chief director of the educational circle of Raab, and in 1824 was appointed librarian to the university of Pest.

  

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•  Zsigmond Kemény

  Baron Zsigmond Kemény (June 12, 1814 – December 22, 1875) was a Hungarian author.

  

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•  Imre Madách

  Imre Madách de Sztregova et de Kelecsény (January 21, 1823 - October 5, 1864) was a Hungarian writer, poet, lawyer and politician. His major work is The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája, 1861). It is a dramatic poem approximately 4000 lines long, which elaborates on ideas comparable to Goethe's Faust. The author was encouraged and advised by János Arany, one of the most famous of 19th century Hungarian poets.

  

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•  Richard Réti

  Richard Réti (28 May 1889, Pezinok – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an ethnic Jewish, Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. His older brother Rudolph Réti was a noted composer and pianist.

  

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•  Péter Nádas

  Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, essayist.

  

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•  George Tabori

  George Tabori (May 24, 1914 – July 23, 2007) was a Hungarian writer and theater director. Tabori was born in Budapest as György Tábori, a son of Kornél and Elsa Tábori. His father died in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul managed to escape the Nazis. As a young man, Tabori went to Berlin but was forced to leave Hitler's Germany in 1935 due to his Jewish background. He first went to London, where he worked for the BBC and received British citizenship.

  

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