Margit Szécsi (May 28, 1928 – November 23, 1990) was a Hungarian poet.

She was born in Budapest to a poor family and studied at Budapest University under a scholarship for the proletariat. She did not complete her degree but instead joined the staff of the literary magazine Csillag in 1949. She also began writing her first poems around this time. Her first collection of poems Március (March) was published in 1955. She married the poet László Nagy.

Margit Szécsi

Awards

She was awarded the Attila József Prize in 1957.

Margit Szécsi

Selected works

Angyalok strandja (Angels' beach) (1956) Páva a tuzfalon (Peacock on the partition) (1958) A trombitákat összesöprik (They'll sweep up the trumpets) (1965) Új heraldika (New heraldry) (1967) A Nagy Virágvágó Gép (The great flower cutting machine) (1969)

Margit Szécsi

References

1928 births

1990 deaths

20th-century Hungarian poets

Budapest University alumni

Hungarian women poets

20th-century Hungarian women writers

Attila József Prize recipients