Gyula Kruacute;dy (1878ndash;1933) was born in northeastern Hungary. Disinherited by his father, he first found success with Sindbadrsquo;s Youth in 1911 and later published a number of popular novels about contemporary Budapest. Forgotten in the years after his death, the success of Saacute;ndor Maacute;rairsquo;s Sindbad Comes Home, a fictionalized account of Kruacute;dyrsquo;s last day, led to a revival of Kruacute;dyrsquo;s works and to his recognition as one of the greatest Hungarian writers. George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born English poet and translator. He received the T.S. Eliot Prize for Reel (2004), and his The Burning of the Books and other poems was published in… 2009.
John Lukacs is the author of more than twenty books on history.