Erzsi Újvári
Erzsi Újvári (born Erzsébet Kassák) (14 July 1899, Érsekújvár-11 August 1940, Moscow) was a Hungarian poet.
Her parents were Istvan Kassák and Erzsébet Istenes, and Lajos Kassák was her brother. In 1912 she moved to Budapest and got work in a textiles factory.[1] Influenced by her brother she became involved in literature, and joined him in founding the avant-garde journals A Tett (1915–16) and MA.[1] She married the poet Sándor Barta.[2]: 27
Along with many other avant-garde writers, she left Hungary after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
Published works
[edit]- Prózák (Prose) Vienna:MA 1921, illustrated by George Grosz[3]
- Csikorognak a kövek (The Stones Roar) Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1986
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dokumentation, Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische (2003). "Ujvári, Erzsi; eigentl. Kassák Erzsébet, verheiratete Barta Erzsébet". www.biographien.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (2007). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 9789027292353.
- ^ "Újvári Erzsi: Prózák - Újvári Erzsi ; ([ill.] George Grosz) | PIM Gyűjtemények". PIM Gyűjtemények (in Hungarian). Retrieved 28 November 2018.
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