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- Péter Nádas was born on October 14, 1942 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer and actor, known for Holt vidék (1972), Memoirs of a River (1989) and Találkozás (2022). He was married to Magda Salamon. He died on August 26, 2026 in Gombosszeg, Hungary.
- SpouseMagda Salamon(1990 - August 26, 2026) (his death)
- Kossuth and Attila József Prize-winning writer, playwright and essayist.
- Began his career as a photojournalist and reporter, later gaining international renown with his novels, short stories and essays.
- After the takeover by the Hungarian Nazis, the Arrow Cross Party on 15 October 1944, his mother Klára Tauber escaped with her son to Backa and Novi Sad, but returned to the capital directly before the Siege of Budapest. Péter Nádas survived the siege together with his mother in the flat of his uncle, the journalist Pál Aranyossi.
- He published his second novel, 'A Book of Memories' in 1986. It took Nádas twelve years to write this book. The epigraph of this novel is from the Gospel of John: "But he spoke of the temple of his body" (John 2:21). In this novel, Nádas describes the world as a system of relations linking human bodies to each other. This book earned Nádas comparisons to Marcel Proust.
- A2fter publishing volumes of short stories, he published his first novel 'The End of a Family Story' in 1977.
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