Ágnes Gergely

Ágnes Gergely (born 1933) is a Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator.

She was born Ágnes Guttmann in Endrőd,^[1] a village on the Great Hungarian Plain.^[2] Her father died in the Holocaust.^[1] She began work in a factory in 1950 but later went on to study Hungarian and English literature at the University of Budapest. She taught secondary school, was a radio producer and was feature editor for the weekly literary magazine Nagyvilág.^[2] From 1973 to 1974, Gergely took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She also has translated English and American works into Hungarian and has lectured on English literature at Eötvös Loránd University.^[3]

In 1963, she published her first poetry collection Ajtófélfámon jel vagy (Sign on my door jamb). She published her first novel A tolmács (The interpreter) in 1973. Gergely was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1977 and 1987 and the Kossuth Prize in 2000.^[1]^[3]

References

1 2 3 Suleiman, Susan Rubin; Forgács, Éva (2003). Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology. p. 195. ISBN 0803242751.
1 2 Wilson, Katharina M (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Volume 1. p. 454. ISBN 0824085477.
1 2 International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. 2004. p. 579. ISBN 185743269X.

Hungarian literature

Early sources	Funeral Sermon and Prayer Old Hungarian Lamentations of Mary Gesta Hungarorum Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum Chronicon Pictum

15th – 17th century	Bálint Balassi Péter Bornemisza István Gyöngyösi Gáspár Heltai Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos Janus Pannonius Péter Pázmány Miklós Zrínyi

18th – 19th century	Zoltán Ambrus János Arany József Bajza János Batsányi Elek Benedek Dániel Berzsenyi Sándor Bródy Gergely Csiky Mihály Csokonai Vitéz József Eötvös Mihály Fazekas János Garay Géza Gárdonyi Ignotus Mór Jókai József Kármán József Katona Ferenc Kazinczy Zsigmond Kemény Károly Kisfaludy Sándor Kisfaludy Ferenc Kölcsey Imre Madách Kelemen Mikes Kálmán Mikszáth Sándor Petőfi István Széchenyi Ede Szigligeti Mihály Tompa János Vajda Mihály Vörösmarty

20th century	Endre Ady Lajos Áprily Mihály Babits Béla Balázs Miklós Bánffy Géza Csáth Tibor Déry György Faludy István Fekete Miksa Fenyő Jolán Földes Milán Füst Géza Gyóni Béla Hamvas Ferenc Herczeg Gyula Illyés Éva Janikovszky Attila József Gyula Juhász Margit Kaffka László Kálnoky Ferenc Karinthy Frigyes Karinthy Lajos Kassák Géza Képes János Kodolányi Károly Kós Dezső Kosztolányi Gyula Krúdy Ervin Lázár Menyhért Lengyel Iván Mándy Sándor Márai Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Móra Zsigmond Móricz Gáspár Nagy László Nagy Ágnes Nemes Nagy László Németh József Nyírő Géza Ottlik István Örkény János Pilinszky Miklós Radnóti Jenő Rejtő Sándor Reményik András Sütő Dezső Szabó Lőrinc Szabó Magda Szabó Sándor Szathmári Miklós Szentkuthy Mária Szepes Antal Szerb Áron Tamási Árpád Tóth Albert Wass Sándor Weöres Lajos Zilahy Péter Zsoldos

Contemporary	Tamás Cseh Sándor Csoóri György Dragomán Péter Esterházy Ágnes Gergely Gábor Görgey Anna Jókai Ferenc Juhász Sándor Kányádi Imre Kertész György Konrád László Krasznahorkai Endre Kukorelly László L. Lőrincz Béla Markó György Moldova Péter Nádas Ádám Nádasdy Lajos Parti Nagy Zsuzsa Rakovszky György Spiró Miklós Vámos

Category:Hungarian writers

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