Ferenc Karinthy





Ferenc Karinthy

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born
June 02, 1921 in Budapest, Hungary

died
February 29, 1992

gender
male


About this author

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.


Average rating: 3.59 · 259 ratings · 69 reviews · 8 distinct works
Metropole
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3.6 of 5 stars 360 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions
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Budapesti tavasz
3.0 of 5 stars 300 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1964 — 4 editions
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Don Juan éjszakája ; Szel...
5.0 of 5 stars 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979
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Das Goldene Zeitalter: Roman
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L'Âge d'or
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Pesten és Budán
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Óvilág és Újvilág
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Vége a világnak
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