![]() ![]() In 1941 he published a History of World Literature which continues to be authoritative today. ![]() He was twice awarded the Baumgarten Prize, in 19. He was made a Professor of Literature at the University of Szeged the same year. His second and best-known work, Utas és holdvilág, known in English as Journey by Moonlight, came out in 1937. Elected President of the Hungarian Literary Academy in 1933 - aged just 32 -, he published his first novel, The Pendragon Legend (which draws upon his personal experience of living in Britain) the following year. From 1924 to 1929 he lived in France and Italy, also spending a year in London, England.Īs a student he published essays on Georg Trakl and Stefan George, and quickly established a formidable reputation as a scholar, writing erudite studies of William Blake and Henrik Ibsen among other works. He studied Hungarian, German and later English, obtaining a doctorate in 1924. Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilated Jewish parents in Budapest, but baptized Catholic. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century. Antal Szerb was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. ![]()
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