Zsuzsa Rakovszky
Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born December 5, 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 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 laso 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
- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 1289. ISBN 185743269X.
- ↑ George, Emery Edward (1993). Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology. p. 473. ISBN 0195086368.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Segel, Harold B (2003). The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. pp. 460–61. ISBN 0231114044.
