Christina Viragh

Christina Viragh, born in Budapest in 1953, is a Hungarian-Swiss writer and translator. She emigrated to Switzerland in 1960 and grew up in Lucerne. She studied philosophy, French and German literature at the University of Lausanne and worked as an author and translator from the 1980s onward. Her novels include Pilatus (2003) and Im April (2006). She translated works by, among others, Péter Nádas, Sándor Márai, Imre Kertész and Marcel Proust. In 2012, she received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her translation of Nádas’s Parallel Stories; that year she also received the European Translator’s Prize and the Brücke Berlin Prize. Viragh was a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.