Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler was born on September 5th, 1905. Arthur passed away March 1st, 1983 at 77 years old. Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest, Hungary. Koestler attended Vienna Polytechnic University.

Arthur Koestler is probably best known for his Non-Fiction Books. They currently have 32 Non-Fiction books available. The first was released in 1937 with the book Spanish Testament. The most recently released was Promise and Fulfilment Palestine 1917-1949 which was released in 2017.

Arthur Koestler was awarded the Sonning Prize in 1968. Arthur was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972. In 1976, Arthur was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and in 1979 with terminal leukaemia. By the time Arthur was in his teens he was fluent in Hungarian, German, French and English. In his later years he became fluent enough in Hebrew to write stories in that language, he was also fluent enough in Russian to get by while he was in the Soviet Union. It is believed that Arthur created the world's first Hebrew crossword puzzle.

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