Vilmos Kondor
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Vilmos Kondor (born 1954) is the name (possibly pseudonym) of a successful Hungarian author. He's been dubbed as "the creator of Hungarian crime fiction".His seven crime novels, known as the "Sinful Budapest" or "Budapest Noir" Cycle, depict the adventures of a journalist, Zsigmond Gordon, and are set in Budapest from the 1930s to the 1950s. They have become very popular in Hungary. The first novel in the cycle, Budapest Noir, was adapted as a film directed by Éva Gárdos which premiered 2 November 2017, and is currently available on several online platforms. Kondor has also written a trilogy of historical thrillers about the fictional Wertheimer family's almost century long affiliation with the Holy Crown of Hungary; a trilogy of contemporary police procedurals with strong political overtones featuring Detective Tibor Ferenczy; and a short novel under the title 'Az otthontalanság otthona' (The home of homelessness) whose whole income he donated to an NGO that gave a helping hand to the migrants who arrived to Hungary during the crisis in 2015. In 2022 he published the first of what promises to be a series of mystery novels set in an alternate reality version of 20th century history in which following the end of World War II Hungary does not become a communist East Bloc nation, but rather develops into an independent and successful Switzerland-like capitalist country. Some of the same characters who appear in his "Sinful Budapest" cycle also appear or are referenced in the new counterfactual/speculative fiction series. In April 0f 2023, the first novel in this series, Második magyar köztársasá (The Second Hungarian Republic) won the Péter Zsoldos Audience Choice Prize, an annual Hungarian literary award given to works in the imaginative fiction genre (science fiction, fantasy, supernatural horror, etc.) genre. Kondor's work has been present in the Hungarian media in several forms. His novels and short stories have been turned into audiobooks, radio plays, a graphic novel, photo exhibitions, and even an interactive smart phone app Budapest walking tour and interactive mystery game. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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