Literature

Frigyes Karinthy

1887–1938Local figure

Frigyes Karinthy

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

  • Created here

    Centrál Grand Café

    He wrote the first sketches of A Journey Round My Skull while based at Centrál after his operation.

  • Burial place

    Fiume Road Graveyard

    The most famous and one of the oldest cemeteries in Budapest.

  • Lived here

    Frigyes Karinthy’s Former Home

    Karinthy lived at the then Verpeléti út 22 from 1930 to 1934, close to his regular table at the Hadik Café.

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