
She was dismissed from the Ministry in the same year.ĭuring the establishment of Stalinist rule from 1949 to 1956, the government did not allow her works to be published. In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was-for political reasons-withdrawn from her on the very day it was given.

She began her writing career as a poet, publishing her first book Bárány ("Lamb") in 1947, which was followed by Vissza az emberig ("Back to the Human") in 1949. She married the writer and translator Tibor Szobotka in 1947. Between 19 she was working in the Ministry of Religion and Education. She started working as a teacher in a Calvinist all-girl school in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely.


She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry.īorn in Debrecen, Szabó graduated at the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost female novelist.
