Ferenc Karinthy

Ferenc Karinthy, born in Budapest on 2 June 1921, son of the writer Frigyes Karinthy and of the psychiatrist Aranka Böhm, who was killed at Auschwitz in 1944, studied Hungarian, Italian and English literature and in 1945 defended a doctorate in linguistics. A water polo player at Ferencváros, he was a dramaturg at the National Theatre, at the Madách, then in the theatres of Miskolc, Szeged and Debrecen, and translated Machiavelli and Molière. Awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1955, he died in Budapest on 29 February 1992.

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