6/11/2023 0 Comments Az ajto szabo magdaIn 1959 she won the Jozsef Attila Prize, after which she went on to write many more novels, among them "Katalin utca" (Katalin Street, 1969), "Okut" (The Ancient Well, 1970), "Regimodi tortenet "(An Old-Fashioned Tale, 1971), and" Az ajto" (The Door, 1987). Under Communist rule, this early critical success became a liability, and Szabo turned to writing fiction: her first novel, "Fresko" (Fresco), came out in 1958, followed closely by "Az oz" (The Fawn). In 1947, she published two volumes of poetry, "Barany "(The Lamb), and "Vissza az emberig" (Return to Man), for which she received the Baumgartner Prize in 1949. Szabo, whose father taught her to converse with him in Latin, German, English, and French, attended the University of Debrecen, studying Latin and Hungarian, and went on to work as a teacher throughout the German and Soviet occupations of Hungary in 19. Magda Szabo (1917 2007) was born into an old Protestant family in Debrecen, Hungary s Calvinist Rome, in the midst of the great Hungarian plain.
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