Ágnes Gergely

Ágnes Gergely (born 5 October 1933) is a Hungarian poet, writer, educator, journalist and translator.

Biography

She was born Ágnes Guttmann in family of Fenákel Rózsika and György Guttmann in Endrőd, She took her pen name "Gergely" from the novel Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi because Agnes Gergely wished to be courageous like the hero from the story, Gergely Bornemissza.

Her father György Guttmann was murdered in the Holocaust.

She began work in a factory in 1950 but later went on to study Hungarian and English literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest. She taught secondary school, was a radio producer and was feature editor for the weekly literary magazine Nagyvilág.

Gergely was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1977 and 1987 and the Kossuth Prize in 2000.