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Gárdonyi Géza
(1863 —1922)

Géza Gárdonyi was a Hungarian author. Although he wrote a range of works, his two best known works are historical novels. Egri csillagok was published in 1899. This translates literally as Stars of Eger, but it was published in English as Eclipse of the Crescent Moon. It is set around a famous siege of the town of Eger in Hungary by the Ottomans in the 16th century. In 2005 this book was voted "the most liked novel of Hungary" by viewers of the television programme A Nagy Könyv. He considered his own best work to be A láthatatlan ember, published in 1901. This actually translates literally as The Invisible Man, but it was published in English as Slave of the Huns (probably to differentiate it from H. G. Wells' novel). It is set around the time of Attila the Hun, and large parts of it are based on Priscus' account of his visit to Attila's court. Although these two novels are fairly well known in Hungary, translations into English and other European languages only became widely published in the late 20th century.

Hungary, 1963, Géza Gárdonyi

Hungary, 2001, Eger Castle and Extract from novel

Hungary, 2013, Géza Gárdonyi