Magda Szabó

Magda Szabó was born in Debrecen on 5 October 1917. She studied in her home town and in 1940 obtained a doctorate in Latin and Hungarian literature. A teacher, then an employee at the Ministry of Education from 1945, she received the Baumgarten Prize in 1949, which was withdrawn from her at once, and lost her post; barred from publishing until 1958, she taught in a school. Returning through the novel, she became one of the most translated Hungarian women writers, received the Prix Femina étranger in 2003 and died in Kerepes on 19 November 2007.

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• NovelThe FawnAz őzMagda Szabó · 1959Literature