Cécile Tormay (8 October 1875/76 in Budapest – 2 April 1937 in Mátraháza) was a Hungarian writer, intellectual, right-wing political activist,[1] literary translator, and social theorist.

[6] Cecilé Tormay never married, did not have children, worked as an independent writer, and led a traditionally “male” life.

[7] This relationship caused a great scandal at the time and was widely commented on by the contemporary press to the point that the two women, to protect their image, decided to sue Count Zichy who was eventually—on the personal intervention of Miklós Horthy himself—sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

[8] Despite the colossal legal documentation of the case, the only materials that survived were the decisions and sentencing of the courts and the testimonials of the servants.

Máté Kocsis and Sándor Lezsák, both Fidesz members of the National Assembly of Hungary unveiled a statue of Tormay, hailing her as a “great patriot".

[3] This was followed by an attempt to rename streets in Budapest after such antisemites as Tormay and József Nyírő, a member of the Nazi Arrow Cross Party.