1. Egon Ronay (1915)

Hungarian Writer

A Hungarian-British culinary critic, Ronay published several popular restaurant guides during the 1950s and 1960s.

2. Imre Kertész (1929)

Hungarian Writer

Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor. His best-known works include Fatelessness, Liquidation, and Kaddish for a Child Not Born.

3. Ádám Bodor (1936)

Hungarian Writer

Ádám Bodor is an award-winning Hungarian author of Transylvanian Hungarian origin.

4. Áron Tamási (1897)

Hungarian Writer

Áron Tamási was a Hungarian writer. He became well known in his native region of Transylvania and in Hungary for his stories written in his original Székely style.

5. György Spiró (1946)

Hungarian Writer

György Spiró is a dramatist novelist and essayist who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary's most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature...

6. András Petöcz (1959)

Hungarian Writer

András Petőcz is a Hungarian writer and poet.

7. Cécile Tormay (1875)

Hungarian Writer

Cécile Tormay was a Hungarian writer intellectual right-wing political activist feminist literary translator and social theorist. Both her parents were of German origin. Her maternal great-grandfather József Spiegel was a...

8. Endre Kukorelly (1951)

Hungarian Writer

Endre Kukorelly is a Hungarian writer poet and journalist. He is a teacher of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He was also an editor of the Magyar Narancs.

9. Péter Hunčík (1951)

Hungarian Writer

Péter Hunčík Czechoslovakia now Slovakia) is a Slovak psychiatrist of Hungarian ethnicity and a successful literary author living in Slovakia.

10. István Péter Németh (1960)

Hungarian Writer

István Péter Németh is a Hungarian poet and literary historian.

11. Béla Zsolt (1895)

Hungarian Writer

Béla Zsolt was the Hungarian author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs Nine Suitcases translated into English by Ladislaus Lob. Zsolt was born on 1 August 1895 in Komárom...

12. Miksa Fenyő (1877)

Hungarian Writer

Miksa Fenyő was a Hungarian writer and intellectual served as a Member of Parliament in the early 1930s and was appointed Minister of Trade and Commerce under the short-lived government...

13. Jean-Pierre Montcassen (Unknow)

Hungarian Writer

Jean-Pierre Montcassen is a pen name of Imre Cselenyák a story teller novelist musician song lyricist the vice president of the Hungarian Prose Writer Workshop and a member of the...

14. Mór Jókai (1825)

Hungarian Writer

Mór Jókai outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.

15. Zsigmond Kemény (1814)

Hungarian Writer

Baron Zsigmond Kemény was a Hungarian author.

16. Mihály Táncsics (1799)

Hungarian Writer

Táncsics Mihály was a Hungarian writer teacher journalist and politician.

17. Miklós Haraszti (1945)

Hungarian Writer

Miklós Haraszti is a Hungarian writer journalist human rights advocate and university professor. He served the maximum of two terms as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from...

18. Elek Benedek (1859)

Hungarian Writer

Elek Benedek was a Hungarian journalist and writer more widely known as the great folk-tale teller of Hungarian fairy tales.

19. Kata Tisza (1980)

Hungarian Writer

Katalin Erzsébet Tisza commonly known as Kata Tisza is a Hungarian writer. She is descendant of the old noble family Tisza and a great-great grandchild of former prime minister Kálmán...

20. Albert Wass (Unknow)

Hungarian Writer

Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege 1908 – Astor Florida February 17 1998) was a Hungarian noble forest engineer novelist poet and member of the Wass de Czege family....

21. Ágoston Pável (1886)

Hungarian Writer

Ágoston Pável also known in Slovenian as Avgust Pavel was a Hungarian Slovene writer poet ethnologist linguist and historian.

22. Peter Fischl (1930)

Hungarian Writer

Peter L. Fischl is a survivor of the Holocaust a poet and a public speaker who has dedicated much of his life to educating people about the Holocaust and the...

23. Ferenc Békássy (1893)

Hungarian Writer

Istvan Dénes Gyula Békássy was a Hungarian poet killed in World War I. He was born in the family mansion at Zsennye in Vas County western Hungary. He and his...

24. Ignotus (1869)

Hungarian Writer

Hugó Veigelsberg was a noted Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus. He was distinguished for the lyric individuality of his poems stories and sociological...

25. Ferenc Faludi (1704)

Hungarian Writer

udi was a Hungarian poet who has been referred to as the father of the new Hungarian lyric. Because of Suppression of the Society of Jesus he switched to being...

26. Adolf Dux (1822)

Hungarian Writer

Adolf Dux was a Hungarian Jewish writer and journalist. He was cousin of Leopold Dukes.

27. Dániel Berzsenyi (1776)

Hungarian Writer

Dániel Berzsenyi – 24 February 1836 in Nikla) was a Hungarian poet. Berzsenyi was one of the most contradictory poets of Hungarian literature. He lived the life of a farmer...

28. Kata Szidónia Petrőczy (Unknow)

Hungarian Writer

Kata Szidónia Petrőczy was a Hungarian writer and poet. She is regarded as the first female writer of the Baroque period in Hungary and its foremost representative of Baroque prose....

29. András Gerevich (1976)

Hungarian Writer

András Gerevich poet screenwriter and literary translator.

30. Simon Bacher (1823)

Hungarian Writer

Simon Bacher was a Hungarian Neo-Hebraic poet. Bacher whose name was originally Bachrach came of a family of scholars and counted as one of his ancestors the well-known Moravian-German rabbi...

31. Antal Szerb (1901)

Hungarian Writer

Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is recognized as one of the major Hungarian literary personalities of the 20th century.

32. József Fabchich (1753)

Hungarian Writer

József Fabchich was a Hungarian writer and translator known mainly for his translations of Ancient Greek poetry into the Hungarian language. Fabchich was born in Kőszeg. Most of his translations...

33. Géza Gyóni (1884)

Hungarian Writer

Géza Gyóni was a Hungarian poet under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He died in a Russian prisoner of war camp during the First World War.

34. Mihály Barla (1778)

Hungarian Writer

Mihály Barla Slovene Miháo Barla Slovenian evangelic pastor writer and poet. Born in Murska Sobota. Studied in Sopron in the Evangelic Lyceum by 1803 studied in the University of Jena....

35. György Aranka (1737)

Hungarian Writer

György Aranka was a Hungarian writer.

36. Péter Kuczka (1923)

Hungarian Writer

Péter Kuczka was a Hungarian writer poet and science fiction editor. After finishing high school Kuczka studied at the University of Economy in Hungary while working several jobs. He started...

37. György Faludy (1910)

Hungarian Writer

György Faludy sometimes anglicized as George Faludy was a Hungarian-born poet writer and translator.

38. Ernő Pattantyús-Ábrahám (1882)

Hungarian Writer

Ernő Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka was a Hungarian journalist and writer. During the Second World War he published many antifascist articles against the National Socialist German Workers' Party Germany. His older...

39. János Pilinszky (1921)

Hungarian Writer

János Pilinszky was a Hungarian poet. Well known within the Hungarian borders for his vast influence on postwar Hungarian poetry Pilinszky’s style includes a juxtaposition of Roman Catholic faith and...

40. Magda Szabó (1917)

Hungarian Writer

Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer arguably Hungary's foremost woman novelist. She also wrote dramas essays studies memories and poetry. Born in Debrecen Szabó graduated at the University of Debrecen...

41. József Katona (1791)

Hungarian Writer

József Katona was a Hungarian playwright and poet creator of the Hungarian drama: author of the legendary historical tragedy: Bánk bán.

42. György Petri (1943)

Hungarian Writer

György Petri was a Hungarian poet.

43. Dezső Kosztolányi (1885)

Hungarian Writer

Dezső Kosztolányi was a Hungarian poet and prose-writer.

44. István Eörsi (1931)

Hungarian Writer

István Eörsi was a Hungarian writer novelist political essayist poet and literature translator. He was born in educated Jewish family. After completing English and German literature studies in Budapest he...

45. István Gyöngyösi (Unknow)

Hungarian Writer

István Gyöngyösi Hungarian poet was born into a poor but noble parents. His early abilities attracted the notice of Count Ferenc Wesselényi who in 1640 appointed him to a post...

46. János Erdélyi (Unknow)

Hungarian Writer

János Erdélyi – January 23 1868 in Sárospatak) was a Hungarian poet critic author philosopher and ethnographist. He was born in 1814 at Nagykapos in the county of Ung and...

47. József Bajza (1804)

Hungarian Writer

József Bajza was a Hungarian poet and critic. He was born at Szücsi and was first published in Károly Kisfaludy's Aurora a literary paper he edited from 1830 to 1837....

48. György Károly (1953)

Hungarian Writer

György Károly is a Hungarian poet and writer.

49. Frigyes Karinthy (1887)

Hungarian Writer

gyes Karinthy was a Hungarian author playwright poet journalist and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees of separation concept in his 1929 short story Chains. Karinthy...

50. Gábor Dayka (1769)

Hungarian Writer

Gábor Dayka was a Hungarian poet.