Hardcover 1979
ASIN: B0016SLEU0
ISBN: 9789631513578 / 978-9631513578
ISBN-10: 9631513572 / 9632701836 / 9632708660 / 9631505464
PAGES: 397
PUBLISHER: Magvető és Szépirodalmi könyvkiadó
LANGUAGE: Hungarian / Magyar
About Szabó Magda:
Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost female novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry.
Born in Debrecen, Szabó graduated at the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. She started working as a teacher in a Calvinist all-girl school in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. Between 1945 and 1949 she was working in the Ministry of Religion and Education. She married the writer and translator Tibor Szobotka in 1947.
She began her writing career as a poet, publishing her first book Bárány ("Lamb") in 1947, which was followed by Vissza az emberig ("Back to the Human") in 1949. In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was--for political reasons--withdrawn from her on the very day it was given. She was dismissed from the Ministry in the same year.
Szabó Magda fojtott atmoszférájú, feszültségektől sistergő történeteiben most is páratlan érzékkel megrajzolt figurákkal találkozhatunk. A Freskó Annuskája pedig mai irodalmunk egyik legszebb, legemlékezetesebb nőalakja.