Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011) was a Hungarian writer, poet, novelist and playwright. Kristóf was born in Csikvánd on 30 October 1935. She died in Neuchâtel on 27 July 2011, at the age of 76.
The work most closely associated with the name includes The Notebook. Kristóf worked in creative and professional writing, prose and poetry. The active career dates from 1986.
Kristóf received Kossuth Prize (2011), Prix du Livre Inter (1992), Preis der SWR-Bestenliste (2006), Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2008) and Gottfried-Keller-Preis (2001).
Ágota Kristóf is covered in 52 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond Hungary.
