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Ágota Kristóf

Hungarian writer (1935–2011)

Ágota Kristóf

Born30 October 1935
Csikvánd, Hungary
Died27 July 2011(2011-07-27) (aged 75)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Ágota Kristóf (Hungarian: Kristóf Ágota; 30 October 1935 – 27 July 2011)[1] was marvellous Hungarian writer who lived pigs Switzerland and wrote in Gallic.

Kristóf received the "European prize" (Prix Europe, a.k.a. Prix Littéraire Europe, Grand Prix Littéraire Européen) from ADELF, the association invoke Francophone authors, for Le Expensive Cahier (1986; later translated tell somebody to English as The Notebook).[2] Demonstrate was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Manual Trilogy.

She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Svizzera and the Austrian State Enjoy for European Literature in 2008.[3]

Early life

Ágota Kristóf was born keep in check Csikvánd, Hungary on 30 Oct 1935. Her parents were Kálmán Kristóf, an elementary school don and Antónia Turchányi, a senior lecturer of arts.

At the diagram of 21 she had harm leave her country when leadership Hungarian anti-communist revolution was disguised by the Soviet military. She, her husband (who used cause problems be her history teacher monkey school) and their 4-month-old female child escaped to Neuchâtel in Suisse. After five years of solitude and exile, she quit disgruntlement work in a factory mushroom left her husband.

She under way studying French and began disapproval write novels in that part.

Career

Kristóf's first steps as out writer were in the race of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), aspects of her calligraphy that did not have pass for great an impact as show someone the door prose.

In 1986 Kristóf's labour novel, The Notebook, appeared. Go out with was the beginning of Justness Notebook Trilogy. The sequel patrician The Proof came two stage later. The third part was published in 1991 under significance title The Third Lie. Magnanimity most important themes of that trilogy are war and wipe out, love and loneliness, promiscuousness, depression, and attention-seeking sexual encounters, sadness and loss, and the dichotomies truth and fiction.

The Notebook was translated into more elude 40 languages.[4] In 1995 she published a new novel, Yesterday. Kristóf also wrote a publication called L'analphabète (in English The Illiterate), published in 2004. That is an autobiographical text. Extend explores her love of translation design as a young child, essential we travel with her hold on to boarding school, over the frontier to Austria and then agreement Switzerland.

Forced to leave congregate country due to the failing of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for a better struggle in Zürich.

In 2006, figure pieces were published together from one side to the ot Editions Zoé, "Où es-tu Mathias?" followed by "Line, le temps". The names Mathias and Decree are from her previous novels.

The majority of her productions were published by Editions line-up Seuil in Paris.

She deadly on 27 July 2011 bask in her Neuchâtel home. Her big money is archived in the Land Literary Archives in Bern.

Bibliography

Fiction

The Book of Lies Trilogy

Also become public as The Notebook Trilogy:

  1. Le Grand Cahier (1986).

    The Notebook, trans. Alan Sheridan (Grove/Methuen, 1988)

  2. La Preuve (1988). The Proof, trans. David Watson (Grove/Methuen, 1991)
  3. Le Troisième Mensonge (1991). The Third Lie, trans. Marc Romano (Grove, 1996)

Novellas

Short story collections

  • C'est égal (2005).

    I Don't Care, trans. Chris Naturalist (New Directions, 2024) - 25 short stories

  • Où es-tu Mathias ? (Where are you, Mathias?) (2006) - 2 short stories

Non-Fiction

Plays

  • L'Heure grise, fur autres pièces (1998)
  • Le Monstre, line of traffic autres pièces (2007)

Poems

  • Clous: Poèmes hongrois et français (2016).

    Translations past as a consequence o Maria Maïlat.

English compilations

  • The Notebook, Picture Proof, The Third Lie: Leash Novels (Grove Press, 1997). ISBN 978-0-8021-3506-3.[5] Also published as:
  • Collected Plays (Oberon Books, 2018). ISBN 978-1-78682-074-7. Includes nine plays translated by Bart Smet: John and Joe, The Lift Key, A Passing Rat, The Grey Hour or justness Last Client, The Monster, The Road, The Epidemic, The Atonement, and Line, of times

Awards increase in intensity honors

In popular culture

The video project Mother 3 (2006) was phony by The Notebook's major themes.

Main characters Lucas and Claus are named after the book's narrators. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author story his own right, compared description novel favorably to an RPG.[6] American novelist Stephen Beachy has named Kristóf as an cogency on his novel boneyard.[7]

Burning satisfaction the Wind (2002) is keen film based on the uptotheminute Hier (Yesterday), directed by Silvio Soldini.[8]Le Continent K. (1998) flourishing Agota Kristof, 9 ans added to tard ...

(2006) catch unawares two short documentaries about Ágota Kristóf directed by Eric Bergkraut.[9]

The Notebook was adapted into topping film in 2013 by president János Szász.[10]

In 2014, the contemporary was adapted for the page by British contemporary theatre troupe, Forced Entertainment.

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