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Mária Kacsir (Cluj, January 7, 1929 – Bucharest, April 4, 2005) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, editor, critic, translator.

Life
She completed her secondary education in her hometown, Marianum (1947), and obtained a teacher's certificate majoring in Hungarian language and literature at Bolyai University (1951). She settled in Bucharest, where from 1951 she worked as a proofreader for the State Literary and Artistic Publishing House, from 1957 she worked as an internal collaborator and theater columnist for Előre, between 1970 and 2003 A Hét. Her journalistic writings, reviews and critiques appeared in these papers and in the columns of Utunk, Igaz Szó.

She translated Gyemján Bednij's short stories (with Ráchel Szőcs, Szúnyogok, 1955) and Ivan Sergejevich Turgenev's novel Before Sunrise (with Ferenc Dobó, 1957); she translated from Romanian Mihail Sadoveanu's short story Ankuca's inn and provided it with an afterword (Kincses Könyvtár, 1961).

As a theater critic, she regularly wrote about Hungarian theater life in Hungary and theater events in Bucharest; she reported on the international avant-garde theater festival in Belgrade several times (1975, 1976, 1978) in a series of articles. In 1978, she edited A Hét's national political yearbook and in 1981 and 1982 she edited theater yearbooks (Old and New Thalia; Actors).

Her volumes

 * A varázslat elemzése. Színikritikai napló; Kriterion, Bukarest, 1985
 * A minden és a semmi gazdái. Színház az ezredvégén; Mentor, Marosvásárhely, 2002
 * Ágak a családfán. Szűkülő-táguló színházi világunk; Kriterion, Kolozsvár, 2004

Awards, recognitions

 * Aranytoll (2000)