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Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook . She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. October 1935 – 27. July 2011   •   Other names Agota Kristofová
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Ágota Kristóf Quotes

“I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.”

Ágota Kristóf

Source: Yesterday

Memory , Forgetting

“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”

Ágota Kristóf

Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels

Home , Fight

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