Karinthy Ferenc

Karinthy Ferenc

Karinthy Ferenc was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He authored more than a dozen novels. The writer and journalist Karinthy Frigyes was his father, the psychiatrist Böhm Aranka, who was murdered 1944 in Auschwitz, his mother.

Born1921-06-02, Budapest, Hungary
Died1992-02-29, Budapest, Hungary
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