Magda Szabó

Magda Szabo was a Hungarian novelist and a doctor of philology who also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memoirs, poetry and children's literature. She was a founding member of the Digital Literary Academy, an online repository of Hungarian literature. Born in 1917 and dying in 2007, she became one of the most widely translated Hungarian writers of her generation. She is the most translated Hungarian author, with publications in forty-two countries and in over thirty languages.