Ágóta KristófÁgota Kristóf (October 30, 1935 - July 27, 2011) was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Her first novel The Notebook (1986) received the European prize for French literature, and has been translated into more thanthirty languages. The Notebook was the beginning of a trilogy on the themes of war and destruction; love and loneliness; promiscuous, desperate, and attention-seeking sexual encounters; desire and loss; truth and fiction. Kristóf was also awarded the Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland (2001) and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2008). She died on 27 July 2011 in her Neuchâtel home. Her estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Read More Read Less