![]() ![]() In the 70’s she once more won the support of the regime. Over the 1960’s she published innumerable articles and reports about the controversial and dysfunctional workings of rural collective farms. ![]() This was followed by a number of other books, but as she became noticeably disillusioned with state socialism, she also found it increasingly hard to publish her works. Her first book of short stories was published in 1953 under the title Egy kosár hazai (A Basketful of Food from Home). She wrote short stories, novellas, plays and film scripts.Īt first sincerely determined to become a committed socialist writer, she later gradually lost faith in the regime. After leaving secondary school she decided to become a professional writer, but for a short time she worked for the Rail Carriage Works at Gyor as a turner, and later went on to study dramaturgy and screenwriting at the College of Film and Theatre. She was only twenty when she published her first short story, "Száz százalék" (One Hundred Per Cent). Her background played a decisive part in her oeuvre: her parents ran a traditional Hungarian farm, Erzsébet being the seventh in a line of eight children. For a long time it seemed as if she would become the anointed author of socialist ‘art’ and ‘rural policy’, but toward the end of her life she became an acutely critical commentator of the regime. Erzsébet Galgóczi was born in a village near the city of Gyor (in north-west Hungary), and she died in 1989. ![]()
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