Zsuzsa Rakovszky
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Born4 December 1950 Edit this on Wikidata
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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

References

  1. ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 1289. ISBN 185743269X.
  2. ^ Kárpátalja.ma (2022-12-04). "72 éves lett Rakovszky Zsuzsa". Kárpátalja.ma (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  3. ^ George, Emery Edward (1993). Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 473. ISBN 0195086368.
  4. ^ 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.

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