Zsuzsa Vathy
Zsuzsa Vathy (25 April 1940 - 7 January 2017) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, and engineer. In 1986, she won the Attila József Prize; in 2010, she won the Sándor Márai Prize , Life Vathy was born in Pápa. She studied chemistry at the University of Veszprém. From 1964 to 1970 , she worked as an engineer in a chemical company in Százhalombatta. After 1971, she worked as a journalist in Budapest. Since 1990 she has worked for the magazines Kortárs , Hitel, Holmi. Her stories appeared in the literary weekly Élet és Irodalom .She has been a freelance author since 1992 . After the death of her husband Ervin Lázár , who was a children's book author, and storyteller, she also became the editor of his literary estate. In the volume of short stories, “Our Life, Our Death,” published in 2007, Eighteen of her books were published in Hungary, and several stories were translated into English and German. In 2006, she was commissioned to write about the Herend porcelain factory . Vathy was accepted as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (“Magyar Művészeti Akadémia”) in 1997. Vathy died on 7 January 2017 in Budapest at the age