![]() The Door, first published in 1987 in Hungarian, is unmistakably a work of fiction, with fiction’s allusive and ambiguous purposes and effects, but it is narrated in the first person by a writer and composed-perhaps almost entirely-of frankly autobiographical recollections. Between 19 both she and her husband, the writer Tibor Szobotka, were prevented by the regime from publishing, and the award of an important prize to her was revoked on the same day it was bestowed. She wrote in many forms-poetry, novels, plays, memoir, essays, and screenplays-and her work has been translated into many languages. ![]() Magda Szabó, who died in 2007 at the age of ninety, was acclaimed and widely read in her native Hungary. ![]()
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