Emma Ritoók


Emma Ritoók or Ritoók Emma was a poet, critic and philosopher.

Biography

Emman Ritoók was born in Nagyvárad in what was then Austria-Hungary, and is now Oradea in Romania. Ritoók studied in Budapest, Leipzig and Paris and in 1906 she obtained a doctorate in philology. She was a librarian at the Capital Library. In 1897 she won a science competition prize of the Szigligeti Társaság of Nagyvárad. In 1905 she distinguished herself with her winning novel Egyenes úton - egyedül . She translated from Scandinavian writers Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun.
She was a member of the Budapest philosophical discussion group "Sunday Circle".
She died in Budapest, Hungary in 1945.

Works

Egyenes úton - egyedül ; Arany János elmélete az eposzról ; A nagy véletlen ; Négyen a tűz körül ; Ellenséges világ ; Sőtét hónapok ; A szellem kalandorai ; Pán megváltása ; Gyárfás Sándor két élete .