Mariska Ady

Mariska Ady (February 26, 1888 in Hadad/Hodod – February 4, 1977 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer and poet,[1][2][3] who published several volumes. She was a cousin of the poet Endre Ady.

Work

By then a widow, Mariska Ady wrote poems during the First World War, on the horrors of the war. Her poems first appeared in local magazines in Szilágy County and later in Transylvanian and national periodicals and newspapers.[4] She followed the lead of her cousin, Endre Ady, in some of the aspects of her lyric poetry. She was the only other member of the Ady family to take up literature.[5]

Family

Ady was the daughter of Sándor Ady, a notary public in Hadad (today Hodod). She qualified as an elementary-school teacher in Budapest. In the First World War she lost her husband, Lajos Landt, which left her with three children to bring up alone. Her teaching career ended early due to illness.[5]

Bibliography
  • Sok ború – kevés derű (Much Darkness, Little Brightness, stories, drawings, Zilah/Zalău, 1907)
  • Én az őszben járok (In Autumn I Walk, poems, Cristuru Secuiesc/Székelykeresztúr, 1924)

References
  1. "Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000-1990 (Hungarian Biographical Lexicon)". mek.oszk.hu. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  2. "Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (National Széchényi Library)". oszk.hu. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  3. Új Magyar Dictionary Irodalmi (New Dictionary of the Hungarian Literature), Vol. I, pp. 16–17 (Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1994). ISBN 963-05-6805-5
  4. E. g. Csíki Lapok, Ellenzék, Magyar Nép, Pásztortűz, Székely Nép, Szilágy, Vasárnapi Újság, Zord Idő.
  5. Romániai Magyar Irodalmi Lexikon (Romanian/Hungarian Literary Dictionary) Retrieved 28 April 2018.
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