Ágota Kristóf

✶October 30, 1935

†July 27, 2011

2 candles burning, 9 lit in all

About their life

Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier. It was followed by two sequels which are collectively The Notebook Trilogy. She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.

Hungarian Swiss writer, poet, novelist and playwright (1935–2011)

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Biography from the article Ágota Kristóf on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.