Author: Ágota Kristóf
Alternate names: Kristof Agota; Agota Kristof
Born: 1935
Died: 2011
Bio: "Ágota Kristóf (Hungarian: Kristóf Ágota; 30 October 1935 – 27 July 2011) was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81gota_Krist%C3%B3f