![]() ![]() The story of a domestic help and her complex relationship with the narrator, it won France's Prix Femina Étranger in 2003 and also had a favourable press in England, where it appeared in Len Rix's translation in 2005.īorn in Debrecen, north-eastern Hungary, Szabó was a precocious child whom her father taught Latin before she went to school. Her books were translated into 42 languages, but her greatest success in western Europe came with a book written only in 1987, Az ajtó (The Door). Among the fairly recent discoveries of English critics stands Magda Szabó, who has died aged 90. Writers such as the Nobel prizewinning Imre Kertész or the excellent Péter Nádas are no longer just names for the English reader. ![]() Contemporary Hungarian prose is now translated into most western languages. ![]()
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