Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai was born in 1900 in Kassa, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a prosperous bourgeois family of Saxon origin. He studied journalism in Leipzig and Berlin, lived in Paris and Florence, and returned to Hungary to become one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. His novels, plays, and essays made him a household name in pre-war Hungary, and he was widely regarded as the country's finest prose stylist. When the Communists came to power after World War II, Márai's works were banned and his name was erased from Hungarian literary history. He emigrated in 1948, living in Italy, New York, and finally San Diego, where he spent his last decades in near-total obscurity, writing prolifically in a language almost no one around him could read. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Embers.