Emma Ritoók

• Name — Emma Ritoók • Born — 15 July 1868 • Birthplace — Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary • Died — 3 April 1945 • Place of death — Budapest, Hungary • Other Names — Ritoók Emma • Occupation — Poet • Critic • Philosopher

Emman Ritoók was born in Nagyvárad in what was then Austria-Hungary, and is now Oradea in Romania. Ritoók studied in Budapest, Leipzig and Paris and in 1906 she obtained a doctorate in philology. She was a librarian at the Capital Library. In 1897 she won a science competition prize (A természettudományi irány a szépirodalomban The natural science trend in fiction) of the Szigligeti Társaság of Nagyvárad. In 1905 she distinguished herself with her winning novel Egyenes úton - egyedül. She translated from Scandinavian writers Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun. She was a member of the Budapest philosophical discussion group "Sunday Circle". She died in Budapest, Hungary in 1945.

• Egyenes úton - egyedül (romano, Bp., 1905); • Arany János elmélete az eposzról (study, Bp., 1906); • A nagy véletlen (romano, Bp., 1909); • Négyen a tűz körül (stories, Bp., 1911); • Ellenséges világ (stories, Bp., 1911); • Sőtét hónapok (poems, Bp., 1920); • A szellem kalandorai (I - II., Romano, Bp., 1921); • Pán megváltása (Mistery Game, Bp., 1929); • Gyárfás Sándor két élete (Roman, Bp., 1933).

Emma Ritoók is recorded with the occupation literary translator. Recorded as writer, poet, aesthetician, librarian and translator.