Award-winning novelist Magda Szabó dies at 90
Kossuth Prize laureate writer Magda Szabó died aged 90 while reading on Monday. Magyar Hírlap described Szabó as the most widely-read and translated Hungarian writer. After obtaining a degree in Latin and Hungarian literature and a PhD in 1940, Szabó taught in Debrecen, later at Hódmezővásárhely and from 1945 worked at the Religion and Public Education Ministry. Her novels and plays were published from 1958.
One of her most popular and famous youth novels was Abigél, which was filmed in the 1970s. She was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1978. Szabó was awarded the Order of Merit Grand Cross Class by President László Sólyom on her 90th birthday.
Funeral arrangements will be made jointly by the Education and Culture Ministry and the Budapest city council.
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