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György Konrád

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1933, Debrecen, Hungary — 2019, Budapest, Hungary

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Hungary

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György Konrád was a Hungarian novelist, essayist and sociologist, a leading dissident intellectual whose novels (The Case Worker, The City Builder) and essays defended civil society against communist rule; he later served as president of International PEN. A Jewish child, he survived the Holocaust in Budapest. He was Jewish.

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