Gyula Krúdy

Gyula Krúdy was born in Nyíregyháza on 21 October 1878, the first child of a lawyer of the lesser nobility and a servant of the family, whom his father married only after the birth of their tenth child. He passed his school-leaving exam in 1895, made his debut as a journalist in Debrecen and then in Nagyvárad, published his first collection before the age of twenty and afterwards lived in Budapest from journalism. Targeted by a press campaign after 1919, ill and pursued by bailiffs, he died in Óbuda on 12 May 1933, aged fifty-four.

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• Short storiesSzindbád ifjúságaGyula Krúdy · 1911not translated into EnglishLiterature