Jenö Rejtö

After a few years of acting 19 year old Jeno Rejto left Budapest to travel all around Europe, from Italy to Germany. In France he joined the Foreign Legion, from whom he escaped when he was taken to North-Africa. During his foreign-travels he had several different jobs like fisher, factory-worker, dancer, salesman, doc-worker, etc. When he returned to Hungary at the age of 27 he started to write plays with more or less success. In the 1930s he wrote novels, adventure novels, criminal novels and his well-known legionnaire novels. He wrote his works on Andrássy road in a coffee shop, and often paid for his coffees with his newly written stories. In the Second World War he was taken to a workcamp because of his Jewish roots. By the weather and his bad physical health caused his terrible death on the New years day of 1943. Nowadays he's one of the most popular Hungarian writers. Thousands of people grew (and will grow) up reading his novels.