Collection: Agota Kristof

Agota Kristof, born in Csikvand, Hungary, in 1935, became an exile in French-speaking Switzerland in 1956. Working in a factory, she slowly learned the language of her adopted country. Her first novel, Le Grand Cahier (1986; The Notebook), was translated into more than 30 languages. She wrote plays as well as further novels. She died in 2011.