Erzsi Újvári

Erzsi Újvári in Vienna, 1922

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

  • Prózák (Prose) Vienna:MA 1921, illustrated by George Grosz[3]
  • Csikorognak a kövek (The Stones Roar) Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1986

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Újvári Erzsi: Prózák - Újvári Erzsi ; ([ill.] George Grosz) | PIM Gyűjtemények". PIM Gyűjtemények (in Hungarian). Retrieved 28 November 2018.