The plague was unveiled in Balboa Park by the city's mayor, Jerry Sanders and Hungary's consul general in Los Angeles, Balazs Bokor on Sunday. Marai's three granddaughters also attended the event.
The ceremony was held as part of the events marking the 20th anniversary of Marai's death, who spent his last ten years in San Diego.
Sandor Marai left Hungary on the eve of communist dictatorship in 1948. He first went to Italy, and then settled in New York. He planned to return to Hungary as the anti-Soviet revolution broke out in 1956 but dropped the idea later as the uprising got crushed by the Soviets. From 1968, Marai lived in Salerno, near Naples, and returned to the US in 1979. He committed suicide in San Diego in 1989.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
