Zsuzsa Rakovszky

After working as a librarian and literary editor at Helikon Publishing House, she became a freelance writer and translator, and she has since established herself as one of the most talented Hungarian poets.

Rakovszky has published several collections of poetry, including Prophecies and Deadlines (1981), One House Further Away (1987), White-Black (1991), New Life (1994) and One-Way Street (1998).  She was awarded the 1988 Attila József Prize and a poetry scholarship from Soros Foundation in 1988. 

The world of her poems is full of complex experiences and emotions, expressing her deep sensuality and appreciation of life in spite of our disturbing and disturbed everyday reality. Her poetry is known especially for its simultaneously intellectual and extremely fragile style.