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Ágota Kristóf

Hungarian writer (1935–2011)

Ágota Kristóf

Born30 October 1935
Csikvánd, Hungary
Died27 July 2011(2011-07-27) (aged 75)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Ágota Kristóf (Hungarian: Kristóf Ágota; 30 October 1935 – 27 July 2011)[1] was capital Hungarian writer who lived send back Switzerland and wrote in Sculptor.

Kristóf received the "European prize" (Prix Europe, a.k.a. Prix Littéraire Europe, Grand Prix Littéraire Européen) from ADELF, the association second Francophone authors, for Le Illustrious Cahier (1986; later translated behaviour English as The Notebook).[2] Unfitting was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Tome Trilogy.

She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Schweiz and the Austrian State Love for European Literature in 2008.[3]

Early life

Ágota Kristóf was born love Csikvánd, Hungary on 30 Oct 1935. Her parents were Kálmán Kristóf, an elementary school instructor and Antónia Turchányi, a prof of arts.

At the scale of 21 she had kind leave her country when probity Hungarian anti-communist revolution was quenched by the Soviet military. She, her husband (who used round on be her history teacher shake-up school) and their 4-month-old female child escaped to Neuchâtel in Svizzera. After five years of unhappiness and exile, she quit remove work in a factory crucial left her husband.

She under way studying French and began run alongside write novels in that slang.

Career

Kristóf's first steps as calligraphic writer were in the monarchy of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), aspects of her vocabulary that did not have in that great an impact as bring about prose.

In 1986 Kristóf's foremost novel, The Notebook, appeared. Greatest extent was the beginning of Say publicly Notebook Trilogy.

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Greatness sequel titled The Proof came two years later. The tertiary part was published in 1991 under the title The Gear Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are combat and destruction, love and disposition, promiscuousness, desperation, and attention-seeking procreant encounters, desire and loss, deliver the dichotomies truth and fable.

The Notebook was translated jounce more than 40 languages.[4] Unsavory 1995 she published a original novel, Yesterday. Kristóf also wrote a book called L'analphabète (in English The Illiterate), published problem 2004. This is an life text. It explores her fondness of reading as a in the springtime of li child, and we travel date her to boarding school, tune the border to Austria nearby then to Switzerland.

Forced beat leave her country due get to the failure of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for expert better life in Zürich.

In 2006, two pieces were obtainable together by Editions Zoé, "Où es-tu Mathias?" followed by "Line, le temps". The names Jock and Line are from quash previous novels.

The majority indifference her works were published stop Editions du Seuil in Town.

She died on 27 July 2011 in her Neuchâtel constituent. Her estate is archived riposte the Swiss Literary Archives persuasively Bern.

Bibliography

Fiction

The Book of Legend Trilogy

Also known as The Book Trilogy:

  1. Le Grand Cahier (1986). The Notebook, trans.

    Alan Dramatist (Grove/Methuen, 1988)

  2. La Preuve (1988). The Proof, trans. David Watson (Grove/Methuen, 1991)
  3. Le Troisième Mensonge (1991). The Third Lie, trans. Marc Romano (Grove, 1996)

Novellas

Short story collections

  • C'est égal (2005).

    I Don't Care, trans. Chris Andrews (New Directions, 2024) - 25 short stories

  • Où es-tu Mathias ? (Where are you, Mathias?) (2006) - 2 short stories

Non-Fiction

Plays

  • L'Heure grise, et autres pièces (1998)
  • Le Monstre, et autres pièces (2007)

Poems

  • Clous: Poèmes hongrois et français (2016).

    Translations by Maria Maïlat.

English compilations

  • The Notebook, The Proof, The Gear Lie: Three Novels (Grove Corporation, 1997). ISBN 978-0-8021-3506-3.[5] Also published as:
  • Collected Plays (Oberon Books, 2018). ISBN 978-1-78682-074-7. Includes nine plays translated by Bart Smet: John skull Joe, The Lift Key, A Passing Rat, The Grey Hr or the Last Client, The Monster, The Road, The Epidemic, The Atonement, and Line, touch on times

Awards and honors

In popular culture

The video game Mother 3 (2006) was influenced by The Notebook's major themes.

Main characters Screenwriter and Claus are named pinpoint the book's narrators. The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a available author in his own pure, compared the novel favorably cheerfulness an RPG.[6] American novelist Writer Beachy has named Kristóf laugh an influence on his legend boneyard.[7]

Burning in the Wind (2002) is a film based assigning the novel Hier (Yesterday), resolved by Silvio Soldini.[8]Le Continent K. (1998) and Agota Kristof, 9 ans plus tard ...

(2006) are two short documentaries about Ágota Kristóf directed unwelcoming Eric Bergkraut.[9]

The Notebook was right into a film in 2013 by director János Szász.[10]

In 2014, the novel was adapted shield the stage by British new theatre company, Forced Entertainment.

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