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Ágota Kristóf

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Born: October 29 1935

Died: 2626 07 20112011

Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook . She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.

Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater , which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and loneliness, promiscuous, desperate, and attention-seeking sexual encounters, desire and loss, truth and fiction.

She has received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook. This novel was translated in more than 30 languages. In 1995 she published a new novel, Yesterday. Kristof also wrote a book called L'analphabète and published in 2004. This is an autobiographical text. It explores her love of reading as a young child, and we travel with her to boarding school, and over the border to Austria, and then to Switzerland. Forced to leave her country due to the failure of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for a better life in Zurich.

The majority of her works were published by Editions du Seuil in Paris. She has two new short stories published at Mini Zoe collection entitled "Ou es-tu Mathias" and "Line, le temps". The names Mathias and Line are from her previous novels.

She died on 27 July 2011 in her Neuchâtel home.

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Books from Ágota Kristóf

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Le Grand Cahier

La preuve

Le troisième mensonge

الأمية

أمس

La vendetta

أينك يا ماتياس؟ يليه: لين، الزمن

The Proof & The Third Lie: Two Novels

John e Joe - Un ratto che passa

الوحش ونصوص أخرى

Опустошитель 15. Европа

Tegnap / A szörny – Kisregény és 4 dráma

Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

L'Analphabète

Грубий зошит. Доказ. Третя брехня: трилогія (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)

I går

A Prova

El monstruo y otras obras

Rød jul 2022

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Ágota Kristóf

Ágota Kristóf

Books from Ágota Kristóf

The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Le Grand Cahier

La preuve

Le troisième mensonge

الأمية

أمس

La vendetta

أينك يا ماتياس؟ يليه: لين، الزمن

The Proof & The Third Lie: Two Novels

John e Joe - Un ratto che passa

الوحش ونصوص أخرى

Опустошитель 15. Европа

Tegnap / A szörny – Kisregény és 4 dráma

Da igual: Los veinticinco cuentos despiadados de Agota Kristof

L&apos;Analphabète

Грубий зошит. Доказ. Третя брехня: трилогія (The Book of Lies - Twins Trilogy #1-3)

I går

A Prova

El monstruo y otras obras

Rød jul 2022

L'Analphabète