![]() She wrote her first novel, Freskó ("Fresco") during these years, which was published in 1958. Since her husband was also censored by the communist regime, she was forced to teach in a Calvinist girls' school until 1959. The Stalinist era from 1949 to 1956 censored any literature, such as Szabó's work, that did not conform to socialist realism. She was dismissed from the Ministry in the same year. ![]() In 1949 she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was immediately withdrawn when Szabó was labeled an enemy to the Communist Party. Szabó began her writing career as a poet and published her first book of poetry, Bárány ("Lamb"), in 1947, which was followed by Vissza az emberig ("Back to the Human") in 1949. She married the writer and translator Tibor Szobotka (1913–1982) in 1947. From 1945 to 1949, she worked in the Ministry of Religion and Education. She began teaching in the same year at the Protestant Girls Boarding School in Debrecen and Hódmezővásárhely. In 1940, she graduated from the University of Debrecen as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian. ![]()
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