Zsuzsa Rakovszky

Hungarian translator and writer (born 1950)

honorary citizenship (Sopron, 2016)

Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 4 December 1950) is a Hungarian translator and writer.^[1] Her surname also appears as Rakovsky.

She was born in Sopron and earned a teaching certificate in Hungarian and English from the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest.^[2] From 1975 to 1981, she worked as a librarian. She published two poetry collections: Jóslatok és határidők (Prophecies and Deadlines) in 1981 and Tovább egy házzal (One house up) in 1987. Rakovszky received the Attila József Prize in 1987.^[3] She has won the Tibor Déry Prize and the (Robert) Graves Prize.^[4]

Rakovszky has translated works by a number of English and American poets into Hungarian.^[4]

Selected works^[4]

Fehér-fekete (white-black), poems (1991)
Egyirányú utca (One way street), poems (1998)

References

^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 1289. ISBN 185743269X.
^ Kárpátalja.ma (2022-12-04). "72 éves lett Rakovszky Zsuzsa". Kárpátalja.ma (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
^ George, Emery Edward (1993). Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 473. ISBN 0195086368.
^ ^a ^b ^c Segel, Harold B (2003). The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. Columbia University Press. pp. 460–61. ISBN 0231114044.

External links

Zsuzsa Rakovszky at IMDb

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

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