Vilmos condor
Vilmos Kondor (* 1954 ) is a Hungarian writer.
Life
Vilmos Kondor studied at the University of Szeged , among others, chemical engineering ; later switched to the Sorbonne in Paris in this subject . After successfully completing his degree, he returned to Hungary.
Currently (2012) Vilmos Kondor lives with his family near Sopron . He teaches natural sciences at a high school, mainly mathematics.
reception
By his own admission, Vilmos Kondor found his style in Roman noir . Jim Thompson , Charles Willeford and Dashiell Hammett are considered his role models . As a homage to the latter, Vilmos Kondor designed his protagonist “Vörös Margó” based on “Dinah Harvest”, a character from Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest .
With the first volume of his Budapest Noir series , Vilmos Kondor was able to convince readers as well as literary critics. The series is laid out in six volumes and describes the situation from the 1930s in the city of Budapest and its immediate surroundings. His protagonist , the police reporter "Zsigmond Gordon" inevitably gets into dangerous situations again and again through his work.
The first band takes place in 1936 and deals with illegal prostitution . The second volume deals with the political situation in 1939, a few weeks after the start of the Second World War, and the third volume continues this topic and shows the capital in 1943. The fourth volume is set shortly after the end of the war.
Works
- Budapest Noir cycle
- The quiet death. Detective novel. ("Budapest noir"). Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-50576-2 .
- Final stop in Budapest. Detective novel. ("Bünös Budapest"). Knaur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-50577-9 .
- A budapesti kém . AK, Budapest 2010, ISBN 978-963-9868-80-9 .
- Budapest romokban . AK, Budapest 2011, ISBN 978-61-5504-937-8 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Condor, Vilmos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |