Ágota Kristóf

Her parents were Kálmán Kristóf, an elementary school teacher and Antónia Turchányi, a professor of arts.

Kristóf's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), aspects of her writing that did not have as great an impact as her prose.

The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destruction, love and loneliness, promiscuousness, desperation, and attention-seeking sexual encounters, desire and loss, and the dichotomies truth and fiction.

It explores her love of reading as a young child, and we travel with her to boarding school, over the border to Austria and then to Switzerland.

The game's designer, Shigesato Itoi, a published author in his own right, compared the novel favorably to an RPG.

[6] American novelist Stephen Beachy has named Kristóf as an influence on his novel boneyard.

[8] Le Continent K. (1998) and Agota Kristof, 9 ans plus tard ... (2006) are two short documentaries about Ágota Kristóf directed by Eric Bergkraut.