Emma Ritoók

Emma Ritoók or Ritoók Emma (15 July 1868 – 3 April 1945) was a poet, critic and philosopher.

Biography Emman Ritoók was born in Nagyvárad in what was then Austria-Hungary, and is now Oradea in Romania. Ritoók studied in Budapest, Leipzig and Paris and in 1906 she obtained a doctorate in philology. She was a librarian at the Capital Library. In 1897 she won a science competition prize ( A természettudományi irány a szépirodalomban The natural science trend in fiction) of the Szigligeti Társaság of Nagyvárad. In 1905 she distinguished herself with her winning novel Egyenes úton - egyedül . She translated from Scandinavian writers Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun. She was a member of the Budapest philosophical discussion group "Sunday Circle".

She died in Budapest, Hungary in 1945.

Works Egyenes úton - egyedül (romano, Bp., 1905); Arany János elmélete az eposzról (study, Bp., 1906); A nagy véletlen (romano, Bp., 1909); Négyen a tűz körül (stories, Bp., 1911); Ellenséges világ (stories, Bp., 1911); Sőtét hónapok (poems, Bp., 1920); A szellem kalandorai (I - II., Romano, Bp., 1921); Pán megváltása (Mistery Game, Bp., 1929); Gyárfás Sándor két élete (Roman, Bp., 1933).