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[wiseheart]

The Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors who’ve influenced you and will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Consider yourself tagged if you want to be tagged.

My fifteen, many of whom would say absolutely nothing to you, I'm afraid...

1) Kodolányi János (historic novels)
2) Kovai Lőrinc (historic novels)
3) Mihail Bulgakov
4) Stanislaw Lem
5) J.R.R. Tolkien
6) Ursula K. Le Guin
7) Szabó Magda (children's books)
8) Henryk Szienkiewicz (historic novels)
9) Alexande Dumas
10) Jules Verne
11) Gárdonyi Géza (historic novels)
12) Jókai Mór (contemporary 19th century literature)
13) Móra Ferenc (children's books and historic novels)
14) Isaac Asimov
15) Iwan Jefremov (sci-fi)

I added the genre to those you might not know, just to give you an impression...

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Amazing how often Tolkien and Le Guin are turning up on these lists! :-)

Of the rest, I've only read Bulgakov (and didn't recognize 8 of the names, I'm afraid.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that Tolkien was the one who brought a lot of us together, it's probably not all that surprising. :) And Le Guin is one of the very few truly original authors who's built up her own world(s), instead of copying others. Even though she depresses the living highlight out of me, she's unique.

I thought you woulnd't have heard of the Hungarian authors. Some of them got translated into foreign languages, but I doubt that many people would have interest in them. A pity, as especially Kodolányi is an absolute marvel. But I guess historic novels where he tries to reconstruct our language as it was in the 10th century aren't easily translated.