Magda Szabó (1917–2007)
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(eng) The native Hungarian form of this personal name is Szabó Magda, so the Legal lastname, firstname name is Magda, Szabó. The Western (including English) Canonical lastname, firstname name is Szabó, Magda.
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- Vedertaget namn
- Szabó, Magda
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Magda, Szabó
- Födelsedag
- 1917-10-05
- Avled
- 2007-11-19
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Hungary
- Land (för karta)
- Hungary
- Födelseort
- Debrecen, Hungary
- Dödsort
- Kerepes, Hungary
- Bostadsorter
- Debrecen, Hungary
- Utbildning
- University of Debrecen, Hungary
- Yrken
- writer
teacher
novelist
poet
essayist
translator - Relationer
- Szobotka, Tibor (husband)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Baumgarten-díj (1949, visszavonták)
József Attila-díj (1959, 1972)
Kossuth-díj (1978)
Pro Urbe Budapest díj (1983)
Debreceni Református Teológiai Akadémia díszdoktora (1993)
Déry Tibor-jutalom (1996) (visa alla 15)
Szép Ernő-jutalom (1998)
Nemes Nagy Ágnes-díj (2000)
A Miskolci Egyetem tiszteletbeli doktora (2001)
Corvin-lánc (2001)
Gundel Művészeti Díj (2003)
Prima Primissima díj (2003)
Femina-díj (2003)
Hazám-díj (2007)
A Magyar Köztársasági Érdemrend nagykeresztje (polgári tagozata) (2007) - Kort biografi
- Magda Szabó (October 5, 1917 – November 19, 2007) was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost woman 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 In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was - for political reasons - withdrawn from her on the very day it was given. She was dismissed from the Ministry in the same year.
During the establishment of Stalinist rule from 1949 to 1956, the government did not allow her works to be published. Since her unemployed husband was also stigmatized by the communist regime, she was forced to teach in an elementary school within this period.
It was during the years of this involuntary silence that she felt the frames of poetry too tight to express her thoughts and turned to prose.[citation needed] Her first novel, Freskó ("Fresco"), written in these years was published in 1958 and achieved overwhelming success among readers. Her most widely read novel Abigél ("Abigail", 1970) is an adventure story about a schoolgirl boarding in eastern Hungary during the war.
She received several prizes in Hungary and her works have been published in 42 countries. In 2003 she was the winner of the French literary prize Prix Femina Étranger for the best foreign novel.
Her novel Abigél was popularised through a much-loved television series in 1978. Abigél was also chosen as the sixth most popular novel at the Hungarian version of Big Read. Her three other novels which were in the top 100 are Für Elise, An Old-fashioned Story and The Door.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szabó_M... - Särskiljningsnotis
- The native Hungarian form of this personal name is Szabó Magda, so the Legal lastname, firstname name is Magda, Szabó. The Western (including English) Canonical lastname, firstname name is Szabó, Magda.
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This is the Second World War. This is Hungary. A motherless but privileged young girl, Gina, who adores her father and is in turn adored by him, brought up in Budapest, is suddenly sent in some secrecy to a strict and Puritanical boarding school in the back end of nowhere. Things get off to a bad start when she alienates her classmates and has to learn the hard way that not everyone sees life as she does. But she learns. She becomes close to her classmates, learns to fit in, but discovers that life beyond the schoolroom is much more complex and frightening than she had known, and that she is in this isolated school for her own protection.
This is a school story, a saga about growing up, about the effects of war, and about facing one's fears. A glimpse into a part of Europe's history about which we know little in this country.… (mer)
This is a school story, a saga about growing up, about the effects of war, and about facing one's fears. A glimpse into a part of Europe's history about which we know little in this country.… (mer)
I read this book after falling in love with another Szabo novel, "Abigail". This book is a much more complicated, and much more grown up: I admired it and was engrossed with it, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as "Abigail". The subject matter is tough, with a central character -- the maid and caretaker Emerence -- who can give everything except the gift of accepting. Her relationship with her employer Magda is intense and at times puzzling, as is Magda's attitude towards her. Very interesting, very involving, but hard.… (mer)
Lovely novel -- great characters, a fascinating setting, and a plot that won't let go. I will read more Szabo.
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Much of the tension of this coming-of-age story comes from what the reader knows that Gina hasn't figured out or can't yet foresee: how the war is going to end; what some of her teachers' statements and actions mean. The eastern Hungarian town in which the boarding school is located is far from the front, but daily life there is shaped both by the war and the presence of the Horthy regime. Magda Szabó is skilful at showing the reader more than Gina herself sees without making her main character seem implausible.
In fact, Gina is a very believable teenager, part sympathetic and part wildly annoying, growing up in fits and spurts. Where Szabó sometimes wobbles is in how she draws her other characters. Sometimes she sketches out a whole facet of someone's personality in a perceptive and humane line or two; yet sometimes her characters fail to convince as people. (Gina's classmates were the most glaring example of this for me. Sometimes their naivete/insularity/cliqueishness rang true for a group of sheltered mid-century teenagers at a remote boarding school; sometimes the swings of mood and action just seemed like cheap melodrama.)
Those reservations aside, this is an absorbing read.… (mer)