[3] Rónai Pál was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest into a Jewish family.

[4] There, he developed friendly relations with Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira - with whom he signed several works -, Cecília Meireles, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Guimarães Rosa, among others.

His works include the translations into Portuguese of the hundreds of short stories collected in the anthology Mar de Histórias (Ed.

Nova Fronteira), as well as organising and editing a commented, reviewed and annotated version of Balzac's Comedie Humaine by Editora Globo.

Ronai was married to Nora Tausz, with whom he had two daughters, Cora Rónai, journalist and writer, and Laura Rónai, baroque flutist and professor at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.