Books By John Pen - Author

Ja´nos Sze´kely (1901-1958) was a novelist and screenwriter. At the age of eighteen, he fled World War I, leaving his native Hungary for Berlin, where he began writing screenplays. He emigrated to the United States in 1938, moving to Hollywood to work at the invitation of Ernst Lubitsch. Sze´kely became a sought-after screenwriter and won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Story for Arise, My Love. He left the United States during the McCarthy era and eventually landed in East Berlin, where he lived until his death. 

Mark Baczoni was born in Budapest and grew up in London. He studied in Cambridge and Budapest, and translates both prose and poetry from Hungarian and French. He lives in London.