Gerty Agoston
Gerty Agoston is a Hungarian-American playwright and novelist.
Early life
[edit]Agoston was born in Budapest, Hungary. When she was 6 years old, she wanted to come to the United States after seeing American films.
After studying in Paris, she went to New York City with her sister who had married a United States citizen. When she was in Paris, she wrote for the publication New Yorker Staats-Zeitung for 26 years and was a film correspondent for Basler Zeitung. For 3 years, Agoston was the cultural correspondent of Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She later decided to quit her journalism career for writing novels and plays.[1]
Writing career
[edit]Agoston has written 13 novels which have been translated into multiple languages. One of her novels, My Bed Is Not For Sleeping, was banned in Australia.[1][2] Other novels include I Married a Hundred Husbands and My Husband Is a Magnificent Whore.[1][3] Her one-act play; For Each Man Kills; was published in the anthology The Best One-Act Plays Of 1948-1949 and her one-act play Three Parsons was published in The Best One-Act Plays Of 1950-1951.[4][5] She translated German plays into English as well as American plays into German.[1][6]
Documentary
[edit]She was one of the subjects of Deeper Than Y, a 2006 documentary about aging and the elderly.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Agoston, Gerty. "Gerty Agoston". Szineszkonyvtar. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ Furze, Brian (2011). Sociology in Today's World. Cengage Learning. p. 247. ISBN 9780170193030.
- ^ a b Tillman, Drew (October 24, 2006). "Deeper Than Y". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
- ^ The best one-act plays 1948-1949. OCLC 29249800. Retrieved June 5, 2017 – via WorldCat.
- ^ The best one-act plays 1950-1951. OCLC 41037217. Retrieved June 5, 2017 – via WorldCat.
- ^ "Gerty Agoston". Dusseldorf. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
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