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Esterházy, Péter
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Péter Esterházy was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 14, 1950. He received a mathematics degree in 1974 before becoming a writer. His major works included Celestial Harmonies, A Little Hungarian Pornography, and The Glance of the Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube). He received the Kossuth Prize, Hungary's highest cultural distinction, in 1996 and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2004. He died from pancreatic cancer on July 14, 2016 at the age of 66.
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