WRITER

Antal Szerb

1901 - 1945

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Antal Szerb (1 May 1901, Budapest – 27 January 1945, Balf) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antal Szerb has received more than 100,717 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Antal Szerb is the 2,759th most popular writer (up from 2,959th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 313th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Hungarian Writer.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

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  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Szerelem a palackban
1963
A Pendragon-legenda
1962
A varázsló eltöri pálcáját
1969
The Traveler
Fiction
In 1945, near the end of World War II, Antal Szerb, the author of "The Traveler," was executed along with 2000 other Hungarian Jews during a forced march westward. Three years later the New York Jewish Refugee Aid Society erected a memorial in the Hungarian town of Balf where the executions had taken place. Part of the memorial is an open book, engraved in stone, bearing the following Antal Szerb quote: ""Freedom is the concern not only of one nation but of all mankind."" In 1995, on the 50th anniversary date of Szerb's execution, Peter Hargitai, "The Traveler's" American translator, and his students at Florida International University had the name of Antal Szerb inscribed into the memorial wall of the Holocaust Memorial in the city of Miami Beach.
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Az angol irodalom kis tükre
1993

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antal Szerb ranks 2,759 out of 7,302. Before him are Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Israel Zolli, Thomas Gray, Harold Robbins, Carl Bernstein, and Meir Shalev. After him are Thomas Kyd, Petter Dass, Samuel Smiles, Alice Schwarzer, John Zerzan, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Antal Szerb ranks 134. Before him are Lee Hoi-chuen, Wolfgang Schmieder, Joe Davis, Jean Guitton, Kjeld Abell, and Prince Christoph of Hesse. After him are Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Ismail al-Azhari, Ebbe Schwartz, George Raft, Lanza del Vasto, and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Among people deceased in 1945, Antal Szerb ranks 195. Before him are Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Maria Skobtsova, Gerhard Gentzen, Leo Borchard, and Jüri Uluots. After him are Johannes Popitz, Jerome Kern, Rash Behari Bose, Adolf Bertram, Carl Moll, and Emily Carr.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Antal Szerb ranks 310 out of 1,077. Before him are Catherine of Hungary, Queen of Serbia (1256), Sigismund Rákóczi (1544), Miklós Ybl (1814), László Benedek (1905), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), and Zoltán Fábri (1917). After him are Lajos Czeizler (1893), Mickey Hargitay (1926), Andrew G. Vajna (1944), Gyula Peidl (1873), Árpád Szakasits (1888), and Márton Bukovi (1903).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Antal Szerb ranks 35. Before him are Emma Orczy (1865), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), Béla Király (1912), Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), George Tabori (1914), and László Polgár (1946). After him are Miklós Radnóti (1909), Péter Szondi (1929), Mihály Babits (1883), Simon of Kéza (1250), Ferenc Kölcsey (1790), and István Örkény (1912).

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