Magda Szabó

Magda Szabó , writer E Hungarian, born the October 5th 1917 with Debrecen in a family cultivated of the upper middle class and died in Kerepes the November 19th 2007.

In 1940, it finishes its studies of Hungarian and of Latin to the Université of Debrecen and it starts to teach in its birthplace then in the college Protesting for girls of Hódmezővásárhely. From 1945, it is employed by the Ministry for the Religion and Education until its dismissal in 1949. This year, one also withdraws the Baumgarten price to him.

In 1947, it Marie with the writer Tibor Szobotka (1913 - 1982). It is at that time that she writes her first collections of poems like Bárány or Vissza az emberig . Its first books appear right after the Second world war.

Then follows, for political reasons, a literary long silence which is broken only towards the end of the year 1950. She is then a great success.

In 1959, it receives the price Attila József then the price Lajos Kossuth in 1978, the price Pro Urbe Budapest in 1983, the Csokonai price in 1987, the Getz price in 1992, the Déry price in 1996 and the price Agnes Nemes Nagy in 2000.

Its novel the Door (1987) obtained the Price Betz Corporation (the United States) in 1993 and the Prix Femina foreign in 2003.

The first volume of its autobiography (Für Elects) appeared in Hungary in 2002. She had worked on the second volume.

Magda Szabó is one of the Hungarian writers most translated in the world.

Works translated into French

Fresco (Freskó) (1958)
Known as in Sophie (Mondják meg Zsófikának) (1958)
the Fawn (Az őz) (1959)
Blue-island (Sziget-kék) (1959)
the Ballade of Iza (Pilátus) (1963)
Lala, Princess of the Country of the Fairies (Tündér Lala) (1965)
lost Parents (Mózes egy, huszonkettő) (1967)
Street Katalin (Katalin utca) (1969)
the Door (Az ajtó) (1987)

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