Fruzina Szalay

Fruzina Szalay (10 September 1864 – 10 July 1926) was a Hungarian poet and translator.

The native form of this personal name is Szalay Fruzina. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Fruzina Szalay
Born(1864-09-10)10 September 1864
Kaposvár, Austria-Hungary
Died10 July 1926(1926-07-10) (aged 61)
Kaposvár, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
Spouse(s)Károly Obetkó

Fruzina Szalay was born in Kaposvár, 10 September 1864 to lawyer Károly Szalay and poet Atala Kisfaludy. Her career began when she started translating poets and had her work published in the Metropolitan Papers and in the Szana Tamás's Koszorú. In 1886 Szalay married Károly Obetkó who was Attorney General in Somogy County in Kaposvár. Her translations again appeared in 1889 From 1890 she was a regular contributor to József Kiss's A Hét, Vasárnapi Újság, Hazánk (1904), and Kert (1904). Szalay was a member of the Countess Sándorné Teleki's salon and wrote stories and articles as well as poetry of her own and the translations of others poetry. Szalay died in Kaposvár of tuberculosis in 1926.[1][2][3][4]

Bibliography
  • "Magyar Poetry : Loew, William N." 1908.
  • Poems, 1893
  • A handful of flowers, 1898
  • Bébi és Micóka, 1906

References and sources
  1. Zirin, M.; Livezeanu, I.; Worobec, C.D.; Farris, J.P. (2015). Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian. Taylor & Francis. p. 647. ISBN 978-1-317-45197-6. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  2. Hawkesworth, C. (2001). A History of Central European Women's Writing. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-333-98515-1. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  3. "Szalay Fruzina - Magyar életrajzi lexikon - Kézikönyvtár". Arcanum (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  4. "Szalay Fruzina". Kezdőlap (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2019-12-12.

Photos of her home and street



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