WRITER

Sándor Márai

1900 - 1989

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Sándor Márai (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈmaːrɒi]; Archaic English name: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sándor Márai is the 437th most popular writer (down from 392nd in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 41st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Writer.

Sándor Márai is most famous for his novel, Embers, which tells the story of a Hungarian family in the aftermath of World War II.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sándor Márai ranks 437 out of 7,302. Before him are Einhard, Ágota Kristóf, Gertrude Stein, Sholem Aleichem, Joseph Brodsky, and Sergei Yesenin. After him are Gregory of Tours, Georges Bataille, Fausto Cercignani, Andrzej Sapkowski, Qu Yuan, and Henri Barbusse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Sándor Márai ranks 28. Before him are Margaret Mitchell, Vasily Chuikov, Urho Kekkonen, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, and Maria of Yugoslavia. After him are Richard Kuhn, Ragnar Granit, Alfred Newman, Hans Fritzsche, James Hilton, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Among people deceased in 1989, Sándor Márai ranks 28. Before him are Laurence Olivier, Osamu Tezuka, Dolores Ibárruri, Silvana Mangano, Vladimir Horowitz, and Hu Yaobang. After him are Thomas Bernhard, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Michel Aflaq, John Hicks, Daphne du Maurier, and Hermann Oberth.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Sándor Márai ranks 51 out of 1,077. Before him are Sándor Petőfi (1823), Sándor Kocsis (1929), Ágnes Keleti (1921), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Ágota Kristóf (1935), and László Kubala (1927). After him are George de Hevesy (1885), John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), Orestes (420), Béla III of Hungary (1148), and Avram Hershko (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Sándor Márai ranks 5. Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860), Imre Kertész (1929), Sándor Petőfi (1823), and Ágota Kristóf (1935). After him are Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Emma Orczy (1865), Max Nordau (1849), and Nikolaus Lenau (1802).

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