Mariska Ady (26 February 1888 in Hadad/

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– 4 February 1977 in

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) was a Hungarian writer and poet, who published several volumes. She was a cousin of the poet

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Work

By then a widow, Mariska Ady wrote poems during the First World War, on the horrors of the war. Her poems first appeared in local magazines in Szilágy County and later in

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and national periodicals and newspapers.E. g. ''Csíki Lapok'', ''Ellenzék'', ''Magyar Nép'', ''Pásztortűz'', ''Székely Nép'', ''Szilágy'', ''Vasárnapi Újság'', ''Zord Idő''. She followed the lead of her cousin, Endre Ady, in some of the aspects of her lyric poetry. She was the only other member of the Ady family to take up literature.Romániai Magyar Irodalmi Lexikon (Romanian/Hungarian Literary Dictionary
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Family

Ady was the daughter of Sándor Ady, a notary public in Hadad (today

). She qualified as an elementary-school teacher in

. In the

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she lost her husband, Lajos Landt, which left her with three children to bring up alone. Her teaching career ended early due to illness.

Bibliography

*''Sok ború – kevés derű'' (''Much Darkness, Little Brightness'', stories, drawings, Zilah/

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, 1907) *''Én az őszben járok'' (''In Autumn I Walk'', poems, Cristuru Secuiesc/Székelykeresztúr, 1924)

References

1888 births 1977 deaths Hungarian women poets 19th-century Hungarian poets 20th-century Hungarian poets People from Satu Mare County People from the Kingdom of Hungary Hungarian schoolteachers {{Hungary-writer-stub