[1][3] During her years as the Director of the Hungarian Theater Institute[4] she published many theater books that were previously not translated or available for the Hungarian public, introducing the works of such international luminaries as Jan Kott, Anatoly Vasiliev, Eugenio Barba, Tadeusz Kantor.

In 1962, she graduated from the local Moscow State University, majoring in linguistics and anthropology, and from that year worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Between 1964 and 1994 she worked at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, first as a teaching assistant and then as an associate professor.

A full list of publications can be found on www.kiralyfoundation.hu/kiraly-nina Zarándok és ellenálló- Beszélő kritika,1992/1[25] Változatok az emigrációra- Magyar Nemzet, 1992-08[26] Kantor- A visszatérés- (Kantor- The Return) Beszélő kritika, 1994/4[27] OSZMI igazgatói kinevezés- Magyar Nemzet, 1994.05[28] Tadeusz Kantor a Lengyel Intézetben- (Tadeusz Kantor at the Polish Institute) Magyar Nemzet, 1994.11[29] PQ, Kurír, (1995.07)[30] Mennyit nyom a latban egy ezüst- (How Much is a Silver Worth) Népszabadság, 1995.július.15[31] Nina színháza, (Nina's Theater) Kurír, 1995.08[32] Dán királyfi minden mennyiségben, (Danish Prince in All Quantities) Népszava, 1998.01[33] A végtelen gondolat- Jan Kott esszéiről- (The Endless Though- On Jan Kott's Essays)- Népszabadság, 1998.01[34] Ablak a tragédia világára- (Window onto The Tragedy's World), Népszabadság könyv kritika, 1999.11[35] Határtalanul - (No Borders- Tunde Trojan's interview with Nina Kiraly) Trojan Tünde beszélget Király Ninával[36] «Балтийский дом»: «Дядя Ваня» Люка Персиваля и «Три сестры» Римаса Туминаса (interjú Ninával Tuminasról)[37] Jászai Mari díj, (Jaszai award) Magyar Nemzet, 2012.03[38] A kerítőnő-Peterdi Nagy László búcsúja Ninától (The Procuress- A Farewell to Nina from Laszlo Peterdi Nagy), 2018[39] Remembering Nina Kiraly (by Patricia Paszt)[40] “We Understand Our Culture Better Through The Other’s”: Interview With Dramaturg And Theatre Historian Nina Király(1940–2018).

[1] Nina Kiraly's professional library consisting of more than a 1000 books on theater written in Polish, Hungarian, English, and French,[1] together with her manuscripts and correspondence with such theater directors and theoreticians as Jan Kott, Eugenio Barba, Zbigniew Raszewski, Anatoly Vasiliev were donated by the family in 2019 to the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary where they will be made researchable for the general public.