Mária Földes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mária Földes

Romanian-Hungarian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1925

Place of Birth: Arad, Arad County, Romania

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1976

Profession: writer, playwright

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mária Földes (5 September 1925 – 21 August 1976) was a Romanian-Hungarian playwright.
After surviving several Nazi concentration camps during 1944-1945 in World War II, including Auschwitz, she returned to Romania, where she studied drama and theater arts.
Writing several plays in Hungarian, she is also known for her memoir, The Stroll (1974), published in Hungarian and in Hebrew (1975).
It was adapted as a one-woman play by the same name, and received productions in Yiddish and English during the late 1970s, including in the United States.