Ágota Kristóf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ágota Kristóf

Hungarian Swiss writer, poet, novelist and playwright

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1935

Place of Birth: Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary

Date of Death: 27-Jul-2011

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, author

Nationality: Hungary, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ágota Kristóf (Hungarian: Kristóf Ágota; October 30, 1935 – July 27, 2011) was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French.
Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986).
She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.