Paulo Rónai ( hu, Rónai Pál; 13 April 1907 - 1 December 1992) was a Hungarian-

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ian

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, and critic.

Biography

Rónai Pál was born in the Hungarian capital

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into a Jewish family. He completed his primary studies in his native country, but also studied in France and Italy before transferring to Brazil due to World War II. There, he developed friendly relations with

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- with whom he signed several works -,

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, among others. His works include the translations into Portuguese of the hundreds of short stories collected in the anthology ''Mar de Histórias'' (Ed. Nova Fronteira), as well as organising and editing a commented, reviewed and annotated version of Balzac's ''Comedie Humaine'' by

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. Ronai was married to Nora Tausz, with whom he had two daughters, Cora Rónai, journalist and writer, and Laura Rónai, baroque flutist and professor at the

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Awards

*1983 Prêmio Machado de Assis

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ronai, Paulo 1992 deaths Brazilian translators Brazilian Jews Hungarian emigrants to Brazil Hungarian Jews Hungarian–Portuguese translators French–Portuguese translators Portuguese–French translators 1907 births 20th-century translators Writers from Budapest