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Ferenc Karinthy

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June 02, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary

died

February 29, 1992

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Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He authored more than a dozen novels. "Epepe" ("Metropole") is the first of Karinthy's novels to be translated into English.

Karinthy worked as a script editor for Nemzeti Színház and Madách Theatre, as well as theatres in Miskolc, Szeged and Debrecen. Between 1957 and 1960, Karinthy translated a number of writers into Hungarian including Machiavelli and Molière. He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.

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Average rating: 3.59 · 259 ratings · 69 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy, George Szirtes (Translation) 360 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Budapesti tavasz 300 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1964 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Don Juan éjszakája ; Szellemidézés ; Kentaur: [regények] 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979	My rating:
	Das Goldene Zeitalter: Roman by Ferenc Karinthy, György Buda 200 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	L'Âge d'or 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Pesten és Budán 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1972	My rating:
	Óvilág és Újvilág 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Vége a világnak 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988	My rating:

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