Location: Farkasréti temető / Farkasréti Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary
Cause of death: Cancer
Photo taken by: Dr Varga József
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Hungarian writer and translator. Following World War II, she worked on a literary periodical Újhold (New Moon); the editor was critic Balázs Lengyel, who she later married. The magazine was eventually banned by the government of the time. Nemes Nagy published her first volume of poetry Kettős világban (In a Dual World) in 1946. During the 1950s, her own work was suppressed and she worked as a translator, translating the works of Molière and Bertolt Brecht among others.
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