Ágnes Gergely

Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator

A tolmács (The interpreter, 1973)
Ajtófélfámon jel vagy (Sign on my door jamb, 1963)

Ágnes Gergely (born 1933) is a Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator.

Biography

She was born Ágnes Guttmann in family of Fenákel Rózsika and György Guttmann^[1] in Endrőd,^[2] a village on the Great Hungarian Plain.^[3] She took her pen name "Gergely" from the novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi because Agnes Gergely wished to be courageous like the hero from the story, Gergely Bornemissza.^[4]

Her father György Guttmann was murdered in the Holocaust.^[2]

She began work in a factory in 1950 but later went on to study Hungarian and English literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest. She taught secondary school, was a radio producer and was feature editor for the weekly literary magazine Nagyvilág.^[3] From 1973 to 1974, Gergely took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She also has translated English and American works into Hungarian and has lectured on English literature at Eötvös Loránd University.^[5]

In 1963, she published her first poetry collection Ajtófélfámon jel vagy (Sign on my door jamb).

Ágnes Gergely published her first novel A tolmács (The interpreter) in 1973, a story about tragedy of Jewish community during Nazist regime.^[6]

Gergely was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1977 and 1987 and the Kossuth Prize in 2000.^[2]^[5]

References

^ "Gergely Ágnes Hajtogatós" (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2018-07-20. Ágnes szülei: Fenákel Rózsika és Guttmann György (Ágnes's parents: Fenákel Rózsika and György Guttmann)
^ ^a ^b ^c Suleiman, Susan Rubin; Forgács, Éva (2003). Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology. U of Nebraska Press. p. 195. ISBN 0803242751.
^ ^a ^b Wilson, Katharina M (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis. p. 454. ISBN 0824085477.
^ "REMÉLEM, ODAÁT NAGYON ERŐS A SZERETET – GERGELY ÁGNES KÖLTŐVEL, REGÉNYÍRÓVAL VÁRNAI PÁL BESZÉLGET". Szombat (in Hungarian). 2003-10-01. Retrieved 2018-07-20. A nevem Guttmann volt (My name was Guttmann)...
^ ^a ^b Publications, Europa Europa (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. p. 579. ISBN 185743269X.
^ Gyáni, Gábor (Jul 12, 2020). A Nation Divided by History and Memory: Hungary in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Routledge. ISBN 9781000090758.

Hungarian literature

The list is by chronological order.

Early sources

Old Hungarian script
Establishing charter of the abbey of Tihany
Urgesta
Funeral Sermon and Prayer
Anonymus (notary of Béla III)
Gesta Hungarorum
Ákos (chronicler)
Simon of Kéza
Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum
Lamentations of Mary

14th century

15th century

15th – 16th century

16th century

16th – 17th century

Péter Pázmány

17th century

17th – 18th century

Kelemen Mikes

18th century

József Kármán

18th – 19th century

19th century

19th – 20th century

20th century

20th – 21st century

Contemporary

Category:Hungarian writers

v t e School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
Academics	Zsófia Bán Bollobás Enikő Kata Csizér Zoltán Kövecses Péter Medgyes Ádám Nádasdy
Former academics	Zoltán Dörnyei† Tibor Frank† András Gerevich Ágnes Gergely Katalin É. Kiss Judit Kormos Tibor Lutter† Arthur J. Patterson† Miklós Szenczi† Arthur Battishill Yolland†
Partner universities	University of Barcelona Comenius University University of Deusto Humboldt University of Berlin University of Florence University of Helsinki Masaryk University Meisei University