Author · Switzerland
Agota Kristof
Died in 2011
Agota Kristof was born on 30 October 1935 in Csikvánd, Hungary, the daughter of a schoolteacher. At twenty-one, after the crushing of the 1956 revolution, she fled with her husband and their four-month-old daughter and settled in Neuchâtel, where she worked in a watch factory. She learned French, that "enemy language", and first wrote poems and plays. Winner of the Schiller Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the Kossuth Prize, she died in Neuchâtel on 27 July 2011.
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- NovelThe NotebookLe Grand CahierAgota Kristof · 1986Literature