Zsuzsa Rakovszky Explained

Zsuzsa Rakovszky (born 4 December 1950) is a Hungarian translator and writer.^[1] Her surname also appears as Rakovsky.

She was born in Sopron and earned a teaching certificate in Hungarian and English from the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest.^[2] From 1975 to 1981, she worked as a librarian. She published two poetry collections: Jóslatok és határidők (Prophecies and Deadlines) in 1981 and Tovább egy házzal (One house up) in 1987. Rakovszky received the Attila József Prize in 1987.^[3] She has won the Tibor Déry Prize and the (Robert) Graves Prize.

Rakovszky has translated works by a number of English and American poets into Hungarian.^[4]

Selected works^[4]

• Fehér-fekete (white-black), poems (1991)
• Egyirányú utca (One way street), poems (1998)

Notes and References

1. Book: International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 . 1289 . Taylor & Francis . 2004 . 185743269X.
2. Web site: Kárpátalja.ma . 2022-12-04 . 72 éves lett Rakovszky Zsuzsa . 2024-01-03 . Kárpátalja.ma . hu.
3. Book: George, Emery Edward . Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology . 473 . 1993 . Oxford University Press . 0195086368.
4. Book: Segel, Harold B . The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 . registration . Columbia University Press . 460–61 . 2003 . 0231114044.