Agota Kristof

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

Her works

In 1986 Kristof?s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and loneliness, desire and loss, truth and fiction.

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Agota Kristof received the European price for French literature for The Notebook. This novel was translated in more than 30 languages.

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In 1995 she publised a new book, Yesterday. Her fifth novel, The Illiterate was also her first biography, and was finished in 2004.

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She writes not only novels, but also poems and plays.

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