Frigyes recoded the operation and his experience in Sweden in a remarkable memoir entitled Journey Around My Skull, said Szabolcs Bihari, who heads the Association of Hungarians in Sweden. The money for the plaque came from association as well as private donations, he added.
The ceremony at which the plaque, in both Hungarian and Swedish, was inaugurated, was attended by Karinthy's grandson, Márton Karinthy.
On the Friday afternoon before the ceremony, the Hungarian embassy in Stockholm organised a literary talk with the participation of Karinthy's grandson and moderated by Professor György Klein, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute's Centre for Microbiology and Tumour Biology as well as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Royal Academy. The embassy invited Hungarians living in Stockholm and Hungarian students studying there to the event.
Márton Karinthy said the plaque was like others commemorating Hungarian authors around the world, such as the Endre Ady plaque in a café in Paris and the Sándor Márai plaque in Los Angeles.
"Stockholm is a part of Karinthy's life work not only because the operation at the Karolinska Institute extended his life for another two years, but because it produced such a book as Journey Around My Skull which crowned his literary achievements," the writer's grandson said.
Márton Karinthy was visiting the Swedish capital for the second time. Two years earlier, he spoke there about his family history novel Ördöggörcs.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
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