Erzsi Újvári

Erzsi Újvári (born Erzsébet Kassák) (14 July 1899, Érsekújvár-11 August 1940, Moscow) was a Hungarian poet.

Erzsi Újvári in Vienna, 1922

Her parents were Istvan Kassák and Erzsébet Istenes, and Lajos Kassák was her brother. In 1912 she moved to Budapest and got work in a textiles factory.^[1] Influenced by her brother she became involved in literature, and joined him in founding the avant-garde journals A Tett (1915–16) and MA.^[1] She married the poet Sándor Barta.^[2]: 27

Along with many other avant-garde writers, she left Hungary after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.

Published works

• Prózák (Prose) Vienna:MA 1921, illustrated by George Grosz^[3]
• Csikorognak a kövek (The Stones Roar) Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1986

References

1. Dokumentation, Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische (2003). "Ujvári, Erzsi; eigentl. Kassák Erzsébet, verheiratete Barta Erzsébet". www.biographien.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2018.
2. Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John (2007). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 9789027292353.
3. "Újvári Erzsi: Prózák - Újvári Erzsi ; ([ill.] George Grosz) | PIM Gyűjtemények". PIM Gyűjtemények (in Hungarian). Retrieved 28 November 2018.