Eva Haldimann
Eva Haldimann | |
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| Born | Román 8 March 1927 |
| Died | 15 September 2019 (aged 92) |
| Known for | Letter to Eva Haldimann |
Eva Haldimann (née Román; 8 March 1927 – 15 September 2019)[1] was a Swiss literary critic and translator from Hungarian into German.
Biography
[edit]Education
[edit]Eva Haldimann received her PhD from the University of Zurich in 1956. Her thesis subject was about critical studies of translations of William Shakespeare.
Literacy critic
[edit]She started a career as a literary critic in 1963 in the Swiss German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, particularly on contemporary Hungarian literature. She wrote more than 300 reviews and her credo was: See what Hungarian literature has to offer, in terms of quality, it can compete with the great European literature.[2]
On 19 March 1977 she wrote a literary review of the novel Fatelessness by the Hungarian writer Imre Kertesz, describing it as the "novel of a desperate man" that helped to make it known in the West.[2] Imre Kertész discovered by chance criticism in an abandoned newspaper in a Budapest swimming pool and a correspondence between literary critic and the writer began, also accompanied by several personal encounters.[3] Imre Kertesz's letters were published in 2009 under the title Letters to Eva Haldimann.[4]
Eva Haldimann was also a translator from Hungarian into German of several novels by the writer Magda Szabo.
Prize
[edit]1991: Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in recognition of its activity in the popularization of Hungarian literary works abroad
1992: Honorary member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts,[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Hommages - Pour que son souvenir demeure: Eva HALDIMANN ROMÁN". hommages.ch. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21.
- ^ a b Rakusa, Ilma (2019-09-18). "Eva Haldimann: eine eminente Vermittlerin ungarischer Literatur". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
- ^ "Das Recht auf Individualität | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). 2009-10-11. ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
- ^ "Briefe aus dem Käfig". Die Zeit. 2009-09-10.
- ^ "Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts". MTA.hu (in Hungarian). 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
- ^ "Haldimann_Eva" (PDF).
7. Kiss Noémi Haldimann Éva halálára https://litera.hu/irodalom/publicisztika/kiss-noemi-a-szabadulast-itt-osszeomlaskent-elik-at.html
