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Eva Haldimann

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Eva Haldimann
Born
Román

8 March 1927
Died15 September 2019 (2019-09-16) (aged 92)
Known forLetter 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

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Education

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Hommages - Pour que son souvenir demeure: Eva HALDIMANN ROMÁN". hommages.ch. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Das Recht auf Individualität | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). 2009-10-11. ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
  4. ^ "Briefe aus dem Käfig". Die Zeit. 2009-09-10.
  5. ^ "Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts". MTA.hu (in Hungarian). 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2019-09-19.
  6. ^ "Haldimann_Eva" (PDF).

7. Kiss Noémi Haldimann Éva halálára https://litera.hu/irodalom/publicisztika/kiss-noemi-a-szabadulast-itt-osszeomlaskent-elik-at.html