Agota Kristof
06. October 2008 10:39
Agota Kristof was born in 1935 in Hungary, and had to depart the country when she was 21 due to the suppression of the Hungarian anti-communist revolution by the Soviet army. She moved to Switzerland, and eventually quit her factory job to pursue her writing career.
During her time in Switzerland she studied French, and published her first novel in French titled The Notebook in 1986. The book became a huge success; it was translated into over thirty languages and was awarded the European prize for French literature. In 1988 and 1991 she released the second and third parts of the trilogy, named The Proof and The Third Lie respectively. She also wrote an autobiographical novel titled L’analphabète (The Illiterate) in 1994 about her childhood in Hungary and Switzerland.
Kristof’s last published work was a collection of short stories titled C’est égal (1995). She currently resides in Switzerland.
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