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Novelist József Eötvös produced two of the greatest 19th-century Hungarian novels:...
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Poet János Arany, engraved frontispiece to Toldi, 1858.
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Popular novelist Mór Jókai published more than 200 books in his lifetime.
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Poet Endre Ady's arrival on the literary scene in 1906 was a turning point for Hungarian...
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Hungarian playwright and novelist Ferenc Molnár was known for his plays about...
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Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, pictured in 2025, the same year he was awarded...
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József Eötvös, steel engraving by C. Mahlknecht after a drawing by Miklós Barabás,...
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