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Agota
Kristof is a writer of Hungarian origin, who publishes mainly French novels.
Biography Kristof
was born on October 30, 1935. At the
age of 21 she had to leave her country when the Hungarian anti-communist
revolution was suppressed by the Soviet military. She,
her husband and their 4 months old daughter escaped to Neuchâtel in
Switzerland. After 5
years of loneliness and exile, she quit her work in a factory and left her
husband. She
started studying French and began to write novels in that language. Her
works In 1986
Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was
the beginning of a moving trilogy. The
sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The
third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The
most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and
loneliness, desire and loss, truth and fiction. Agota
Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The
Notebook. This
novel was translated in more than 30 languages. In 1995
she publised a new book, Yesterday. Her
fifth novel, The Illiterate, was also her first biography, and was
finished in 2004. She
writes not only novels, but also poems and plays. |
