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词条 Gerty Agoston
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  1. Personal life

  2. Professional career

  3. References

Gerty Agoston is a Hungarian-American playwright and novelist.

Personal life

Agoston was born in Budapest, Hungary and wanted to come to the United States after seeing American films when she was 6 years old. After studying in Paris, she came to New York City with her sister who had married a United States citizen. Once there, she wrote for the publication New Yorker Staats-Zeitung for 26 years and was a film correspondent for Basler Zeitung. For 3 years, Agoston was the cultural correspondent of Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She later decided to quit her journalism career to write novels and plays.[1]

Professional career

Agoston has written 13 novels which have been translated into multiple languages and her novel My Bed Is Not For Sleeping was banned in Australia.[1][2] Other novels include I Married a Hundred Husbands and My Husband Is a Magnificent Whore.[1][5] Her one-act play For Each Man Kills was published in the anthology The Best One-Act Plays Of 1948-1949 and her one-act play Three Parsons was published in The Best One-Act Plays Of 1950-1951.[3][4] She has translated German plays into English as well as American plays into German.[1][5]

She was one of the subjects of Deeper Than Y, a 2006 documentary about aging and the elderly.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.szineszkonyvtar.hu/contents/f-j/gertyeleta.htm# |title=Gerty Agoston |last=Agoston |first=Gerty |website=Szineszkonyvtar |access-date=June 5, 2017}}
2. ^{{cite book |last=Furze |first=Brian |date=2011 |title=Sociology in Today's World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5OTLuh2uXMoC&pg=PA247#v=onepage&q&f=false |publisher=Cengage Learning |page=247 |isbn=9780170193030}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/best-one-act-plays-1948-1949/oclc/29249800 |title=The best one-act plays 1948-1949 |website=WorldCat |access-date=June 5, 2017}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/best-one-act-plays-1950-1951/oclc/41037217 |title=The best one-act plays 1950-1951 |website=WorldCat |access-date=June 5, 2017}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://emuseum.duesseldorf.de/view/people/asitem/items%40:36197/0%3Ft:state:flow%3Dfe2a3695-0945-4a15-9ff1-f7050aabc36b&prev=search |title=Gerty Agoston |website=Dusseldorf |access-date=June 5, 2017}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2006/10/24/deeper-than-y/ |title=Deeper Than Y |last=Tillman |first=Drew |date=October 24, 2006 |website=The Village Voice |access-date=June 5, 2017}}
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