question: Erich Maria Remarque and Sándor Márai have names that originally sound like which language?
answer: German
context: Title: Ragnar Kvam
  Passage: Ragnar Kvam (18 November 1917 – 15 February 2006) was a Norwegian journalist, novelist, translator and literary critic.  He was born in Tønsberg and grew up in Drammen.  After the Second World War he was journalist in the newspaper "Fremtiden", and the Norwegian News Agency.  He made his literary debut in 1950 with the novel "Alle vil hjem".  Among his other novels are "De herjede menn" from 1953, "Den store stillheten" from 1964, and "Krystallnatten" from 1970.  He translated many books into Norwegian language, including works by George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, C. P. Snow and Erich Maria Remarque.
  Title: Sándor Márai
  Passage: Sándor Márai (originally "Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára", archaically English: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
  Title: Hungarian literature
  Passage: Hungarian literature is the body of written works primarily produced in Hungarian, and may also include works written in other languages (mostly Latin), either produced by Hungarians or having topics which are closely related to Hungarian culture.  While it was less known in the English-speaking world for centuries, Hungary's literature gained renown in the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks to a new wave of internationally accessible writers like Mór Jókai, Antal Szerb, Sándor Márai, Imre Kertész and Magda Szabó.
  Title: Robert Shvarc
  Passage: Robert Shvarc (10 December 1932 – 25 April 2003) born in Sarajevo of Bosnia, 10 December 1932, is a Hebrew and Albanian, recognized as one of the best translators from German of the 20th century and beginning of new millennium, writer and poet.  His parents were respectively mother from Elbasan and father an Hebrew from Austria and lived in Shkodra, Albania.  There Robert Shvarc grew up as a lover of Albanian mother's language and is the first who brought for the Albanian reader some masterpieces of literature as the novels of Gabriel García Márquez, Erich Maria Remarque, Lion Feuchtwanger, dramas of Bertolt Brecht; books of poetry from Goethe, Schiller and Heine.  Also Shvarc translated in German best books of many Albanian poets and writers.
  Title: Culture of Hungary
  Passage: The culture of Hungary varies across Hungary, starting from the capital city of Budapest on the Danube, to the Great Plains bordering Ukraine.  Hungary has a rich folk crafts tradition, for example: embroidery, decorated pottery and carvings.  Hungarian music ranges from the rhapsodies of Franz Liszt and folk music to modern songs influenced by folk music and Roma music.  Hungary has a rich and colorful literature with many poets and writers although not many are known abroad due to the limited prevalence of the Hungarian language.  Some noted authors include Sándor Márai and Imre Kertész, who have been gaining acclaim in recent decades.  János Kodolányi was well known in Italy and Finland in the mid-20th century.  Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.  Péter Esterházy is popular in Austria and Germany, and Magda Szabó has recently become well known in Europe as well.
  Title: Tony Judt
  Passage: Tony Robert Judt, FBA ( ; 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a British historian, essayist, and university professor who specialized in European history.  Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute.  He was a frequent contributor to the "New York Review of Books".  In 1996 Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
  Title: Erich Maria Remarque
  Passage: Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German
  Title: The Night in Lisbon
  Passage: The Night in Lisbon (German: "Die Nacht von Lissabon" ) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1962.  It revolves around the plight of two German refugees in the opening months of World War II.  One of the refugees relates their story during the course of a single night in Lisbon in 1942.  The story he recounts is mainly a romantic one, and also contains a lot of action with arrests, escapes and near-misses.  The novel is realistic, Remarque was himself a German refugee (although the novel is fictional and only loosely based on the experience of Remarque 's friend, novelist Hans Habe), and provides insight into refugee life in Europe during the early days of the war.  The book completed what was known as Remarque’s "emigre trilogy" along with "Flotsam" and "Arch of Triumph".  It was Remarque's last completed work.
  Title: Three Comrades (novel)
  Passage: Three Comrades (German: "Drei Kameraden" ) is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.  It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front.  He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin (probably).  Remarque wrote the novel in exile and it was first published in Dutch translation as "Drie kameraden", with English translation following soon in "Good Housekeeping" from January to March 1937 and in the book form in the same year.  First German language edition was published in 1938 by exile publisher "Querido" in Amsterdam, but the novel was published in Germany only in 1951.
  Title: August Perk
  Passage: August Perk (October 25, 1897, Lohne / Lingen, Germany; – May 12, 1945, Braunschweig, Germany) was a German Resistance fighter against the National Socialism.  His brief friendship with Erich Maria Remarque influenced Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front".
citations: Erich Maria Remarque Sándor Márai