author
Tamás Kóbor
1867–1942
A sharp-eyed Hungarian novelist and journalist, he wrote vividly about Budapest life, social ambition, and the pressures of modern city living. Born as Adolf Bermann, he became known for fiction that brought urban realism into Hungarian literature.
5 Audiobooks
Fagy : Elbeszélések
by Tamás Kóbor
Cognac-idillek : novellák
by Tamás Kóbor
Budapest : Regény
by Tamás Kóbor
Munka : Elbeszélések
by Tamás Kóbor
A tisztesség nevében : regény
by Tamás Kóbor
About the author
Born in Pozsony, now Bratislava, on August 28, 1867, he was raised in Budapest and originally named Adolf Bermann. He studied law, worked for a time in banking, and then moved into journalism and literature, writing for Budapest newspapers and literary journals under the name Tamás Kóbor.
His fiction is especially associated with city life and the social world of turn-of-the-century Budapest. Readers and reference works describe him as an important voice in Hungarian urban prose, with novels and stories that often explored ambition, poverty, status, and the uneasy rhythms of modern life.
He also worked as a publicist and editor, and his writing career stretched across decades until his death in Budapest on May 26, 1942. Today he is remembered as a Jewish-born Hungarian writer whose work helped capture the atmosphere and tensions of a changing capital city.