Gerty Agoston

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Gerty Agoston is a Hungarian-American playwright and novelist.

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Early life

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

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

She was one of the subjects of Deeper Than Y , a 2006 documentary about aging and the elderly. [3]

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References

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  2. Furze, Brian (2011). Sociology in Today's World. Cengage Learning. p. 247. ISBN   9780170193030.
  3. 1 2 Tillman, Drew (October 24, 2006). "Deeper Than Y". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
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  5. The best one-act plays 1950-1951. OCLC   41037217 . Retrieved June 5, 2017 via WorldCat.
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