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Lajos Zilahy

1891 - 1974

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Lajos Zilahy (27 March 1891 − 1 December 1974) was a Hungarian novelist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), he studied law at the University of Budapest before serving in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, in which he was wounded on the Eastern Front – an experience which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly). He was also active in film. His 1928 novel Something Is Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lajos Zilahy is the 1,835th most popular writer (down from 1,781st in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Romania (down from 117th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Romanian Writer.

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Among writers, Lajos Zilahy ranks 1,835 out of 7,302. Before him are Al-Hariri of Basra, Lucinda Riley, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, David Burliuk, Walafrid Strabo, and Alexandre Benois. After him are Princess Michael of Kent, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Jacques Cazotte, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.

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Among people born in 1891, Lajos Zilahy ranks 71. Before him are Lilya Brik, Dimitrije Ljotić, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Oswald Boelcke, Walter A. Shewhart, and Emiliano Mercado del Toro. After him are Hans F. K. Günther, Kim Seong-su, Poul Nielsen, Johannes R. Becher, Kálmán Kalocsay, and Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin. Among people deceased in 1974, Lajos Zilahy ranks 66. Before him are Vladimir Fock, Candy Darling, Samuel Goldwyn, James J. Braddock, Nikolai Kuznetsov, and Josef Krips. After him are Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Jean Absil, René Spitz, Gino Cervi, Donald Crisp, and Pavel Bermondt-Avalov.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Lajos Zilahy ranks 124 out of 844. Before him are Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (1784), Angelica Rozeanu (1921), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Armand Călinescu (1893), Aureolus (220), and Basarab the Old (null). After him are Inna (1986), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Victor Brauner (1903), Stefan Hell (1962), Tudor Vladimirescu (1780), and Manea Mănescu (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Lajos Zilahy ranks 13. Before him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852). After him are Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Dora d'Istria (1828), Mircea Cărtărescu (1956), Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916), János Arany (1817), and Ana Blandiana (1942).

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