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Among authors with Hungarian roots in the reader ranking is the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. The son of a Hungarian diplomat, he emigrated to the United States and described the state of complete absorption in an activity in “Flow” (1990). The Nobel Prize in Literature has gone to two Hungarian writers: Imre Kertész in 2002 and László Krasznahorkai in 2025.
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