Biographies of Ferenc Karinthy

Ferenc Karinthy was born in Budapest in 1921. He obtained a PhD in linguistics and went on to be a translator and editor, as well as an award-winning novelist, playwright, journalist and water polo champion. He is the author of over a dozen novels. Metropole (Telegram) is the first to be translated into English.

Ferenc Karinthy (June 2, 1921 – February 29, 1992) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He authored more than a dozen novels. His father was the writer and journalist Frigyes Karinthy. His mother, the psychiatrist Aranka Böhm, was killed in 1944 in Auschwitz. Spring Comes to Budapest was the first of Karinthy's novels to be translated into English (Corvina Press, 1964). His novel Epepe was later translated into English as Met...

Ferenc Karinthy est un écrivain et dramaturge hongrois né à Budapest le 2 juin 1921 et mort dans la même ville le 29 février 1992. Il est le fils du célèbre écrivain et journaliste hongrois Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938). Linguiste de formation, il est l'auteur d’Epépé, roman à la tonalité kafkaïenne, dans lequel un linguiste se rendant à un congrès à Helsinki se trompe d'avion, et se retrouve dans un pays dont il ne comprend ni le langage, ni l'écriture, malgré ses compétences évidentes dans ces ...