Oliver VII

ANTAL SZERB was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian, and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, 1934, is set in London and Wales. Journey by MoonlightThe Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in the forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.