Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai, born Sándor Grosschmid in Kassa on 11 April 1900, studied in Leipzig, then wrote for German newspapers in Frankfurt and Berlin, before living for six years in Paris with his wife, Ilona Matzner. Back in Budapest in 1928, he counted in the thirties among the best-known writers of his country. He left it in 1948, lived in Italy and then in the United States, worked for Radio Free Europe and refused to be published in Hungary as long as Soviet domination lasted. He took his own life in San Diego on 21 February 1989.

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• NovelEmbersA gyertyák csonkig égnekSándor Márai · 1942Literature