Gyula Krúdy
Gyula Krúdy (1878-1933) was born in Nyíregyháza in eastern Hungary. He was seventeen when he arrived in Budapest in 1896, a handsome and charismatic young man in a sophisticated city. Over the next three decades, he created a literary landscape referred to, nostalgically, as the world of Krúdy. As well as being recognised as one of Hungary’s most remarkable novelist, he is remembered as a bon viveur and journalist whose writing captured and chronicled the end of an era. Krúdy’s writing anticipates both ’stream of consciousness’ modernism and the magic realism of Latin American writers.