Emma Ritoók

Emma Ritoók or Ritoók Emma (15 July 1868 – 3 April 1945) was a poet, critic and philosopher.

Biography
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.

Works

 *  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).