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Hungarian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Hungary or whose writings are associated with that country. A * Mariska Ady (1888–1977), poet B * Mária Bajzek Lukács (born 1960), Hungarian-born, Slovene-language writer, educator and translator *Zsófia Balla (born 1949) Romanian-born Hungarian poet and essayist * Linda Vero Ban (born 1976), writer on Jewish identity and spirituality *Zsófia Bán (born 1957), novelist, literary writer and critic *Kata Bethlen (1700–1759), memoirist, letter writer and autobiographer *Janka Boga (1889–1963), playwright and essayist *Katalin Bogyay (born 1956), politician, non-fiction writer and critic *Edith Bone (1889–1975), journalist and autobiographer *Ágota Bozai (born 1965), novelist and translator *Edith Bruck (born 1932), novelist and playwright writing in Italian *Zsuzsanna Budapest (born 1940), Hungarian-born American journalist, playwright and feminist D *Anna Dániel (1908–2003), novelist, children's writer and historia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éva Földes
Éva Földes (6 July 1914 – 9 July 1981) was a Hungarian author and Olympic bronze medalist. She was born in Szombathely and died in Balatonalmádi. During the London 1948 Summer Olympics, she competed in the ' epic works' category producing "Der Jugendquell" ("The Well of Youth"), which won her a bronze medal. During World War II, she was interned in KZ Ravensbrück, KZ Flossenbürg, and KZ Mauthausen Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany ... but survived. References External links Profile sports-reference.com; accessed 24 March 2018. 1914 births 1981 deaths Hungarian women writers Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions Mauthausen concentration camp survivors Flossenbürg concentration camp survivors Ravensbrück concentration camp survivo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Kottanner
Helene Kottanner (née Wolfram; hu, Kottanner Ilona or ''Kottanner Jánosné''; c. 1400 – after 1470) was a Hungarian courtier and writer. Her last name is spelled variously as Kottanner, Kottanerin, or Kottannerin. She is primarily known to history as the author of memoirs about the years 1439 and 1440, when king Albert II of Germany died and his son Ladislaus the Posthumous was born. Kottanner, who dictated her life story in German, was a kammerfrau to Queen Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409–1442). She also assisted Queen Elisabeth in a royal succession plot. Biography Early life Helene ''née'' Wolfram was born in the 1400s into a minor noble family of German ancestry from the region of Sopron County. Her father was Peter Wolfram, who was still alive in 1435. Her unidentified mother lived in Sopron and was last mentioned as a living person by contemporary records in 1442. Helene understood, but did not speak Hungarian. Kottanner married twice and bore three children. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noémi Kiss
Noémi Kiss (born in 1974 in Gödöllő) is a Hungarian writer, whose works have been translated into English, German, Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian. The German press considered Kiss as one of the most promising writers of her generation. Biography Kiss studied Comparative literature, Sociology and Hungarian Studies at the University of Konstanz in Germany, and also at the University of Miskolc in Hungary, where she has been a lecturer since 2000. She received her PhD from the University of Miskolc in 2003 for a dissertation on Paul Celan, published with the title ''Határhelyzetek. Paul Celan költészete és magyar recepciója'' (Borderline cases: Paul Celan’s poetry and its Hungarian reception). Kiss regularly publishes short stories, and fictional travelogues on Eastern Europe, and essays on photography and literature. She is a writer and traveler. Her fiction features independent and vulnerable female figures, who sometimes flirt with the eccentric, but more often strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annamária Kinde
Annamária Kinde (10 June 1956 – 5 January 2014) was a Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...n journalist, poet and editor. Annamária Kinde was an ethnic Hungarian and died on 5 January 2014, aged 57. She was survived by her daughter, Anna (born 1990). References 1956 births 2014 deaths People from Oradea Romanian people of Hungarian descent Romanian journalists Romanian women poets Romanian editors Romanian women editors Romanian women journalists 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century Romanian women writers {{Romania-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivka Keren
Rivka Keren (born 1946) is an Israeli writer. Biography Rivka Keren was born as Katalin Friedländer in Debrecen, Hungary. She immigrated with her parents and small brother to Israel in 1957. She has been writing since childhood, first in Hungarian, later in Hebrew. Studied painting in Jerusalem and New York City, philosophy, literature and psychology in Bar Ilan University, graduated in Tel Aviv University ( MA, clinical psychology). Keren has worked as a librarian, art therapist and clinical psychologist. Exhibited her paintings in various countries. During these years, she had published books for children, adolescents, novels, short stories, translations and was included in numerous anthologies. Some of her books and short stories had been translated to German, English, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Braille (for the blind) and recorded on disks. Keren is a member of PEN, ACUM, and IPA. She is married with two children. Literary work Rivka Keren published so far fourteen bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etelka Kenéz Heka
Etelka Kenéz Heka () (born 26 October 1936), sometimes Etelka Heka () is a Hungarian writer, poet and singer. Life She was born on 26 October 1936 in Gajić ( hu, Hercegmárok or Márok), Yugoslavia but she was raised at Zmajevac ( hu, Vörösmart). She graduated from the secondary grammar School at Bački Monoštor ( hu, Monostorszeg). She took a degree at the Teachers' Training Faculty in Hungarian in Subotica, University of Novi Sad. After her graduation she started to learn to sing from opera singer Margit Markovics privately. She played at Novi Sad Theatre and sang at Radio Television of Vojvodina. She also sang in Vienna in 1966, then in West Germany and Denmark. Although she is a Hungarianwoman, she visited Hungary for the first time in 1974, and she met her husband, opera singer Ernő Kenéz in Budapest. They moved to Vienna where they married and they had a restaurant. In 1997 they came to Hungary when her husband became deathly ill and her spouse died at his bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teréz Karacs
Teréz Karacs (18 April 1808 – 2 October 1892) was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist, and women's rights activist. She was a leading figure in the early feminist movement in Hungary, as well as the general social reform movement, and a famous literary writer of contemporary Hungary. A pioneer of women's education, she was the founder of the Zrínyi Ilona Grammar School in the north-east of Hungary. Life Karacs was born in Budapest on the 18 April 1808. Her mother, Eva Takacs, was an advocate for women's rights and her father, Ferenc Karacs, was an engraver and engineer. The Protestant family home was a meeting place for intellectuals. She was the second of six children and was given her primary education in a school in Pest from 1814 to 1819, She then educated herself as an autodidact, although she also had to care for her younger siblings. Karacs was particularly inspired by a ten-month trip as a teenager to Vienna in 1824. Hungarian female writers who insisted on pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit Kaffka
Margit Kaffka (10 June 1880 – 1 December 1918) was a Hungarian writer and poet. Called a "great, great writer" by Endre Ady, she was one of the most important female Hungarian authors, and an important member of the Nyugat generation. Her writing was inspired by József Kiss, Mihály Szabolcska, and the writers' group of the periodical ''Hét''. Personal life Margit Kaffka was born on 10 June 1880 in Nagykároly (today Carei, Romania) into a family of minor Hungarian nobility (see her family's genealogy in Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek Family'). Her father was a public prosecutor, but died early and the family lived under reduced circumstances. She received a scholarship to study at the Sisters of Mercy teacher's training college in Szatmár and in return she taught for one year in Miskolc. She studied in Budapest, receiving a teacher's diploma from the Erzsébet Girls' School. She returned to Miskolc, where she taught literature and economics in a private girls' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Jenbach
Ida Jenbach was an Austrian playwright and screenwriter for German and Austrian cinema during the 1920s. She was one of the authors of the spirited farce ''Opera Ball'' that appeared at the Little Carnegie Playhouse in New York City in 1931. ''New York Times'' critic Mordaunt Hall praised this comedy as “cleverly acted by the principals.” ''The Opera Ball'' (''Opernredoute'') was a German film that had “captions in English lettered on the scenes to keep those unfamiliar with German au courant of what is happening.” In 1926, Jenbach wrote the script to '' The Priest from Kirchfeld'', based on Ludwig Anzengruber‘s popular German "folk play". The play bears a notable resemblance to ''The Atonement of Gosta Berling.'' Attacking the Catholic doctrine of celibacy for priests and the denial of burial for suicides, the play was and remains very controversial. Jenbach also worked on the screenplay to Hugo Bettauer’s 1924 dystopian satire, '' Die Stadt ohne Juden'' ("The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éva Janikovszky
Éva Janikovszky (April 23, 1926 in Szeged – July 14, 2003 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer. She wrote novels for both children and adults, but she is primarily known for her children's books, translated into 35 languages. Her first book was published in 1957. Among her most famous picture books are ''If I Were a Grown-Up'' and ''Who Does This Kid Take After?'' She won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis The (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only ... in 1973. References Hungarian children's writers 1926 births 2003 deaths People from Szeged Hungarian women children's writers Hungarian women novelists 20th-century Hungarian novelists 20th-century Hungarian women writers Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery {{hungary-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisz Goriupp
Alisz Goriupp (also known as Alice Goriupp, 18 August 1894 in Buziásfürdő – 4 February 1979 in Budapest) was a Hungarian librarian, media historian and bibliographer. She published several papers on bibliography and other aspects of library science. Career In 1916, with a thesis on the work of philologist Gábor Döbrentei, Goriupp earned her doctorate at the Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary.Agnes Kenyon, ed.Goriupp Alisz ''Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon, 1000-1990''. Retrieved 2010-12-26. (Following the Union of Transylvania with Romania, the city was known as Cluj, and subsequently as Cluj-Napoca.) In 1917 Goriupp obtained a diploma to teach Hungarian and German, having attended the universities of Vienna and Leipzig on a partial scholarship. Afterwards she continued her studies at the University of Vienna. In 1917-18 she taught German language at her alma mater. In 1918 she began as a trainee at the National Széchényi Library (''Országos Széché ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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