Agota Kristof

Agota Kristof is a writer of Hungarian origin, who publishes mainly French novels.

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Kristof was born on October 30 1935. At the age of 21 she had to leave her country when the Hungarian anti-communist revolution was suppressed by the Soviet military. She, her husband and their 4 months old daughter escaped to Neuch?tel in Switzerland. After 5 years of loneliness and exile, she quit her work in a factory and left her husband. She started studying French and began to write novels in that language.

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