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Magda Szabó


Born
in Debrecen, Hungary
October 05, 1917

Died
November 19, 2007

Genre
Fiction


Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost female novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry.

Born in Debrecen, Szabó graduated at the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. She started working as a teacher in a Calvinist all-girl school in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. Between 1945 and 1949 she was working in the Ministry of Religion and Education. She married the writer and translator Tibor Szobotka in 1947.

She began her writing career as a poet, publishing her first book Bárány ("Lamb") in 1947, which was followed by Vissza az emberig ("Back to the Human") in 1949. In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was--for political reasons--withdrawn from her ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 18,694 ratings · 2,228 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors
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Abigél
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Für Elise
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Régimódi történet
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Mondják meg Zsófikának
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“Creativity requires a state of grace. So many things are required for it to succeed.”
― Magda Szabó , The Door
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“I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.”
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“She was lonely. Who isn't lonely, I'd like to know? And that includes people who do have someone but just haven't noticed.”
― Magda Szabó, The Door
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