Zsuzsa Rakovszky

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

Zsuzsa Rakovszky
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Born4 December 1950  (age 69)

She was born in Sopron and earned a teaching certificate in Hungarian and English from the University of Budapest. 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.[2] She has won the Tibor Déry Prize and the (Robert) Graves Prize.[3]

Rakovszky has translated works by a number of English and American poets into Hungarian.[3]

Selected works[3]
  • Fehér-fekete (white-black), poems (1991)
  • Egyirányú utca (One way street), poems (1998)

References
  1. International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 1289. ISBN 185743269X.
  2. George, Emery Edward (1993). Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. p. 473. ISBN 0195086368.
  3. 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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