author
Sári Ferenczi
1887–1952
A Hungarian writer and literary historian, she moved between fiction, essays, and scholarship with unusual ease. Her life also carried a note of quiet courage, including anti-fascist resistance that cost her her teaching post during World War II.
2 Audiobooks
Mary
by Sári Ferenczi
A vörös daru
by Sári Ferenczi
About the author
Born in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca) on June 23, 1887, she studied at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest and went on to build a career as both a writer and a literary historian. Sources agree that she was the daughter of literary historian and librarian Zoltán Ferenczi, and that she died in Budapest on March 8, 1952.
She spent the years from 1932 to 1936 in Berlin, where her first publications appeared. After returning to Hungary, she taught French and Hungarian at the Erzsébet Girls' School, and later worked as a librarian at the National Széchényi Library.
Her career stretched across articles, essays, short fiction, and novels, and several of her works are still accessible today, including Mary and A vörös daru. One especially striking detail from her life is that she was dismissed from her teaching position in 1944 because of her anti-fascist stance, which gives her story a moral weight as well as a literary one.