Mór Jókai

Mór Jókai (1825-1904), also known as Maurus Jókai, was Hungary's most popular and prolific novelist and a leading voice of its Romantic era. A participant in the 1848 revolution, he went on to write more than a hundred novels celebrating Hungarian history, landscape, and national character. He is best remembered for A Magyar Nábob (A Hungarian Nabob) and its sequel Kárpáthy Zoltán, and for the novel Az arany ember (The Man with the Golden Touch).