Zoltán Csernai
Zoltán Csernai (born January 21, 1925 in Békéscsaba ; died November 26, 2005 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian science fiction writer.
Life
After studying economics, Csernai worked in the sugar industry. After 1957 he began to write reports and then also short stories for newspapers and magazines.
In 1961 his first novel Titok a világ tetején (German Secret on the Roof of the World ) appeared, which forms a trilogy together with the two following Az özönvíz balladája (1964, German ballad of the flood ) and Atleóntisz (1971, German Atlantis ), in which is about extraterrestrial visitors who landed on earth in the past. In the first two, the legendary snow people in the Himalayas are their descendants. Both volumes have been published in German translation as a book for young people, slightly abridged. In the last volume, the survivors of a catastrophic war on the fourth planet of the sun, Orgone, look for a new home on earth and found the mythical realm of Atlantis on the Mediterranean island of Thera . The novel Tollaskígyó utolsó visszatérése , published in 1987, follows on from the trilogy.
Works
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Titok a világ tetején (novel, 1961, 2nd edition 1974, ISBN 963-09-0044-0 )
- German: Secret on the roof of the world. Translated by Hans Skirecki . Ill. By Werner Ruhner. Kompass-Bücherei Vol. 140. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1970 (abridged).
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Az özönvíz balladája (novel, 1964)
- English: Ballad of the Deluge. Translated by Hans Skirecki. Well told Vol. 118. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1973 (Abridged).
- Atleóntisz (novel, 1971)
- Csukák, harcsák és rosszcsontok (book for young people, 1972)
- A boldogságcsináló (novel, 1980, ISBN 963-211-376-4 )
- Béke a Kék Bolygón ( short stories, 1980)
- Farkaskölykök és vízipockok (Book for young people, 1985, ISBN 963-11-3750-3 )
- Tollaskígyó utolsó visszatérése (novel, 1987, ISBN 963-211-732-8 )
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 109.
- Péter Kuczka: Hungary. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 2, 2015.
Web links
- Zoltán Csernai at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Zoltán Csernai at Open Library
- Csernai Zoltán in Magyar Scifitörténeti Társaság (Hungarian), accessed on December 23, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Csernai, Zoltan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian science fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Békéscsaba |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 2005 |
| Place of death | Budapest |