Books By Sándor Márai - Author

Sándor Márai was born in Kassa, Hungary in 1900. He was an editor at the age of eighteen before moving to Berlin to study and become a journalist. He considered writing in German before choosing his native language when he returned to Hungary. He was the first critic to write reviews of the work of Franz Kafka. Márai, to his peril, was critical of the German army of occupation during the war. After the Communists took over in 1948 he left Hungary, going first to Italy and then to the United States. He died in California in 1989. Len Rix is the translator of Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight and Magda Szabó's The Door; for which he won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. His translation of The Door was one of the New York Times ten best books of 2015. He was in 2021 awarded the Hungarian Gold Cross of Merit for his translations.