Emma Ritoók or Ritoók Emma (15 July 1868 – 3 April 1945) was a poet, critic and philosopher.
Biography
Emman Ritoók was born in
Nagyvárad
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, and is now Oradea in Romania. Ritoók studied in
Budapest
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Leipzig
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and
Paris
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and in 1906 she obtained a doctorate in philology. She was a librarian at the Capital Library. In 1897 she won a science competition prize ('' A természettudományi irány a szépirodalomban '' The natural science trend in fiction) of the Szigligeti Társaság of Nagyvárad. In 1905 she distinguished herself with her winning novel '' Egyenes úton - egyedül ''. She translated from Scandinavian writers
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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,
Knut Hamsun
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.
She was a member of the Budapest philosophical discussion group "
Sunday Circle".
She died in
Budapest, Hungary
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in 1945.
Works
* '' Egyenes úton - egyedül '' (romano, Bp., 1905);
* '' Arany János elmélete az eposzról '' (study, Bp., 1906);
* '' A nagy véletlen '' (romano, Bp., 1909);
* '' Négyen a tűz körül '' (stories, Bp., 1911);
* '' Ellenséges világ '' (stories, Bp., 1911);
* '' Sőtét hónapok '' (poems, Bp., 1920);
* '' A szellem kalandorai '' (I - II., Romano, Bp., 1921);
* '' Pán megváltása '' (Mistery Game, Bp., 1929);
* '' Gyárfás Sándor két élete '' (Roman, Bp., 1933).
References
1868 births
1945 deaths
People from Oradea
Hungarian women poets
20th-century Hungarian poets
20th-century Hungarian women writers
Writers from Austria-Hungary
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