Ferenc Herczeg


Ferenc Herczeg was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Career

He founded and edited the magazine Új Idők in 1895. In 1896, he was elected to parliament, and in 1901, he became the president of the Petőfi Society.
Dream Country, one of his more prominent novels, tells how the love affair of an American business magnate and a Hungarian adventuress ends in jealousy and murder in the course of a yacht tour from Athens and Istanbul to Venice. In 1925, 1926 and 1927, he was nominated for the Nobel prize for The Gates of Life, a historical novel about archbishop Tamás Bakócz, the only Hungarian aspirant to the papal throne, set in 16th-century Rome.
One major recurring theme of his novels is the conflict of a rich heir with his brother, cousin or rival who has been cheated of his lawful rights.

Selected bibliography