Sándor Márai was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist.
Márai in the early 1940s
Arms of the family Grosschmid de Mára
Sándor Márai (detail of his statue in Košice, Slovakia)
Statue of Márai in Košice
Sir Christopher James Hampton is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation. He has thrice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Atonement (2007) and The Father (2020); winning for the former and latter.
Christopher Hampton at the Odesa International Film Festival, 2016