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Magda Szabó


Born
in Debrecen, Hungary
October 05, 1917

Died
November 19, 2007

Genre
Fiction, Literary 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 In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was--for political reasons--withdrawn from ...more

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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.”
― Magda Szabó, The Door
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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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Polls

March 2021 New School Classic Poll

 
  22 votes, 24.2%

The Castle by Franz Kafka, 1926, 316 pages
 
  20 votes, 22.0%

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 1950 369 pages
 
  11 votes, 12.1%

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1915, 147 pages
 
  9 votes, 9.9%

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971, 256 pages
 
  9 votes, 9.9%

The Door by Magda Szabó, 1987, 262 pages
 
  8 votes, 8.8%

On Photography by Susan Sontag, 1973, 224 pages
 
  7 votes, 7.7%

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, 1962, 198 pages
 
  5 votes, 5.5%

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