Introduction by Tibor Fischer

Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and translator of poetry that Sándor Márai – the acclaimed author of Embers and Conversations in Bolzano – first made his name in the literary world.

This collection, the first and only edition of Márai’s poems in the English language – here presented in John M. Ridland’s and Peter V. Czipott’s brilliant verse translation – offers a comprehensive selection spanning the author’s whole career and exemplifying his mastery of what he considered to be the highest form of literary expression.