George Jonas

George Jonas
Jonas in a 2008 interview
Jonas in a 2008 interview
Born(1935-06-15)June 15, 1935
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
DiedJanuary 10, 2016(2016-01-10) (aged 80)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Resting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
OccupationWriter, producer and columnist
NationalityHungarian
CitizenshipHungarian Canadian - dual citizenship
Notable worksBy Persons Unknown (1977), Vengeance (1984)
Notable awards1978 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book
Member Order of Canada
Spouse
Sylvia Nemes
(m. 1960; div. 1969)
(m. 1974; div. 1979)
Maya Cho
(m. 1986)
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ChildrenAlexander Jonas (with Sylvia Nemes) b. 1964
Website
georgejonas.ca

George Jonas, CM (June 15, 1935 – January 10, 2016) was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet, and journalist. A self-described classical liberal, he authored 16 books, including the bestseller Vengeance (1984), the story of an Israeli operation to kill the terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre. The book has been adapted for film twice, first as Sword of Gideon (1986) and as Munich (2005).

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