Author. He was a 20th-century Hungarian author who wrote at least 46 books. He wrote novels and poetry and was a journalist. He was the first person to write newspaper reviews of Franz Kafka. He was born as Sándor Grosschmid in Kassa at the time, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now named Košice in Slovakia, and died in San Diego, California. He began his career as a publisher and literary critic. He was forced into exile for his antifascist critics, and he moved to France. On the subject of being exiled, he wrote the poem "Funeral Oration." Another one of his poems was "Angel from Heaven," which depicts the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. After World War II, when the Communist regime came into power in Hungary, he lived in Italy and later in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1952. He worked for Radio Free Europe. Among his books "A gyertyák csonkig égnek" (Embers), "Vendégjáték Bolzanóban" (The Bolzano Lover), "Föld, föld…!"(Memoir of Hungary) and "Eszter Hagyatéka" (Eszter's Legacy), "Confessions of a Bourgeois: A Memoir" and "Az Igazi y Judith". After the death of his son, he suffered from deep depression as a widower, as well as battling cancer. At that point, he committed suicide shortly before his 89th birthday. For years, his works were only known in Hungary, but starting in 1992, his writings have become popular after being translated into a host of languages. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize, a state-sponsored award in Hungary.
Author. He was a 20th-century Hungarian author who wrote at least 46 books. He wrote novels and poetry and was a journalist. He was the first person to write newspaper reviews of Franz Kafka. He was born as Sándor Grosschmid in Kassa at the time, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now named Košice in Slovakia, and died in San Diego, California. He began his career as a publisher and literary critic. He was forced into exile for his antifascist critics, and he moved to France. On the subject of being exiled, he wrote the poem "Funeral Oration." Another one of his poems was "Angel from Heaven," which depicts the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. After World War II, when the Communist regime came into power in Hungary, he lived in Italy and later in the United States, where he became a citizen in 1952. He worked for Radio Free Europe. Among his books "A gyertyák csonkig égnek" (Embers), "Vendégjáték Bolzanóban" (The Bolzano Lover), "Föld, föld…!"(Memoir of Hungary) and "Eszter Hagyatéka" (Eszter's Legacy), "Confessions of a Bourgeois: A Memoir" and "Az Igazi y Judith". After the death of his son, he suffered from deep depression as a widower, as well as battling cancer. At that point, he committed suicide shortly before his 89th birthday. For years, his works were only known in Hungary, but starting in 1992, his writings have become popular after being translated into a host of languages. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize, a state-sponsored award in Hungary.
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