Margit Szécsi

Margit Szécsi (May 28, 1928 November 23, 1990) was a Hungarian poet.[1]

She was born in Budapest to a poor family and studied at Budapest University under a scholarship for the proletariat. She did not complete her degree but instead joined the staff of the literary magazine Csillag in 1949. She also began writing her first poems around this time. Her first collection of poems Március (March) was published in 1955. She married the poet László Nagy.[2]

She was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1957.[1]

Selected works[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Szécsi Margit" (in Hungarian). Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon (MEK).
  2. 1 2 Segel, Harold B (2003). The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945. pp. 549–50. ISBN 0231114044.


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