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Zsuzsa Rakovszky

Hungarian translator and writer (born 1950) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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]

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Selected works[4]

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

References

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