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6 unusual facts about Vilmos Kondor


Antal Kocsis

His character plays a small but memorable role in Vilmos Kondor's 2012 novel Budapest Noir.

Kodály körönd

Körönd and its renaming in the 1930s play a central role in Vilmos Kondor's 2012 novel Budapest Noir.

Lillafüred

There is a guest house there, too, which is shown in Vilmos Kondor's novel Budapest Noir.

Oktogon

Oktogon and its famous cafés play a central role in Vilmos Kondor's 2012 novel Budapest Noir.

Vilmos Kondor

He portrayed one of his characters (Vörös Margó or in English: Red Margot) on Hammett's Dinah Brand from Red Harvest.

He lives with his wife, daughters and dog in a small village near Sopron.



see also

Budapest Noir

"The search for a Hungarian crime thriller is at an end: Vilmos Kondor’s novel is a Hungarian crime thriller and then some, one of the harder variety, in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but with Hungarian characters and set in the Hungarian capital in the period before World War II."