Cécile Tormay

Cécile Tormay was born in Budapest on 8 October 1875, into an assimilated family of German origin; her father, Béla Tormay, an agronomist, was a member of the Hungarian Academy. Educated at home, she read German, Italian, French and Latin literature in the original languages, and travelled a great deal abroad before the war. An enemy of the Soviet Republic in 1919, she became a figure of the nationalist right of the interwar period; she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1936 and 1937, and died in Mátraháza on 2 April 1937.

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• NovelStonecropEmberek a kövek közöttCécile Tormay · 1911LiteraturePublic domain