Erzsi Újvári Explained

Erzsi Újvári (born Erzsébet Kassák) (14 July 1899, Érsekújvár-11 August 1940, Moscow) was a Hungarian poet.

Her parents were Istvan Kassák and Erzsébet Istenes, and Lajos Kassák was her brother. In 1912 she moved to Budapest and got work in a textiles factory.^[1] Influenced by her brother she became involved in literature, and joined him in founding the avant-garde journals A Tett (1915–16) and MA.^[1] She married the poet Sándor Barta.^[2]

Along with many other avant-garde writers, she left Hungary after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

Published works

• Prózák (Prose) Vienna:MA 1921, illustrated by George Grosz^[3]
• Csikorognak a kövek (The Stones Roar) Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1986

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dokumentation . Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische . Ujvári, Erzsi; eigentl. Kassák Erzsébet, verheiratete Barta Erzsébet . www.biographien.ac.at . 29 November 2018 . de . 2003.
2. Book: Cornis-Pope . Marcel . Neubauer . John . History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions . 2007 . John Benjamins Publishing . Amsterdam/Philadelphia . 9789027292353 . en.
3. Web site: Újvári Erzsi: Prózák - Újvári Erzsi ; ([ill.] George Grosz) PIM Gyűjtemények ]. PIM Gyűjtemények . 28 November 2018 . hu-HU.