Kossuth Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 26 (1989) Winner
Sándor Márai
サンドール・マーアイ
Sándor Márai
Aliases:
Alexander Márai / Sandor Marai
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1900-04-11 （Kassa, Austria-Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia)）
- Died
- 1989-02-21 （San Diego, United States） age 88
- Nationality
- Hungarian
- Languages
- Hungarian
- Residence History
- Kassa (Košice) → Leipzig → Frankfurt → Berlin → Paris → Budapest (Krisztinaváros) → Italy → San Diego
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Poet, Journalist
- Active Years
- 1918-1989
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eötvös Loránd University | — | — | — | — | Hungary |
| Leipzig University | — | — | — | — | Germany |
Eötvös Loránd University
Country:
Hungary
Leipzig University
Country:
Germany
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Kossuth Prize | — | — | — | in memoriam |
Kossuth Prize
Result:
in memoriam
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Embers
1942 NovelA nostalgia for the bygone multi-ethnic, multicultural society of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
FriendshipBetrayalCollapse of Empire
Adaptations
- [Stage] / Christopher Hampton (2006)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- RealismPrecise and clear style
- Recurring Motifs
- Collapse of empiresMother tongue and nationhoodNostalgia
Health
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Advanced cancer1987年頃Worsened depression, isolation, and suicide
Legacy
Largely forgotten outside Hungary, rediscovered and republished in many languages since the 1990s, now part of 20th-century European canon.
In Popular Culture
- Statues in Košice and Budapest
Quotes
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Source: Confessions of a Citizen (1935)
Trivia
- First to review Franz Kafka's works
- Supported Hungarian Soviet Republic initially but later exiled
- Nobel-like recognition posthumously