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Frigyes Karinthy
Frigyes Karinthy (Karinthy Frigyes, 1887–1938) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and critic, one of the creators of 20th-century humorous literature, known for the 1912 parody volume Így írtok ti.
Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi (Gárdonyi Géza; born Ziegler Géza, 1863–1922) was a Hungarian novelist and journalist, best known for Egri csillagok (Stars of Eger, 1901) and A láthatatlan ember (The Invisible Man, 1902).
László Németh
László Németh (1901–1975) was a Hungarian writer, essayist, playwright, and physician, a leading interwar népi figure whose novels, notably Iszony, were translated into many languages.
Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó (Szabó Magda, 1917–2007) was a Hungarian novelist, poet, and dramatist, one of the most widely translated Hungarian authors, known above all for her 1987 novel The Door.
Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (1900–1989), born in Kassa, was a leading Hungarian novelist and journalist who left communist Hungary in 1948; his novel Embers brought him posthumous international fame.
Zsigmond Móricz
Zsigmond Móricz (Móricz Zsigmond, 1879–1942) was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose unsentimental fiction about peasant life made him a central figure of twentieth-century Hungarian prose.