Erzsébet Galgóczi (27 August 1930 – 20 May 1989) was a Hungarian writer, playwright, and screenwriter. Her work is often described as realist fiction.
Personal life
Galgóczi attended primary school in Ménfőcsanak, the small village where she was born, and attended high school between 1941 and 1945 in the nearby city of
Győr. Between 1945 and 1949, she attended the teacher's training school of Győr, graduating in 1949. Between 1950 and 1955, she attended the Budapest Theater College, majoring in
dramaturgy
Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the Representation (arts), representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.
The term first appears in the eponymous work ''Hamburg Dramaturgy'' (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ...
. She lived openly as a lesbian from the 1970s,
and her long-time partner was actress
Hilda Gobbi
Hilda Emília Gizella Gobbi (6 June 1913 – 13 July 1988) was an award-winning Hungarian actress, known for her portrayals of elderly women. One of her most beloved performances was as Aunt Szabo in the radio soap opera ''The Szabo Family''. A ...
.
On May 20, 1989, she died unexpectedly of a heart attack in her family home.
Career
Originally a committed socialist writer, Galgóczi gradually lost faith in the regime, and her work reflects her growing criticism of political repression and corruption.
Her most successful work in Hungary is ''Vidravas'', and her novella ''Törvényen belül'' was made into a 1982 film by the award-winning Hungarian film director
Károly Makk.
Galgóczi wrote the script for the film, ''Egymásra nézve'' (English title: ''
Another Way''). An English translation of the original novella was published in 2007 under the title ''Another Love'' by
Cleis Press.
Awards
In 1978, Galgóczi received the
Kossuth Prize
The Kossuth Prize ( hu, Kossuth-díj) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 (on occasion of the centenary of the March 15th revolution, the ...
. She was also the recipient of the SZOT Prize (1970) and the
József Attila Prize (1962, 1969, 1976).
References
External links
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Erzsébet Galgóczi hlo.hu biography
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1930 births
1989 deaths
Hungarian LGBT screenwriters
Hungarian LGBT dramatists and playwrights
Hungarian women dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Hungarian screenwriters
20th-century Hungarian women writers
20th-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights
Lesbian dramatists and playwrights
Lesbian screenwriters
People from Győr
20th-century LGBT people