She received the European prize for French literature for "The Notebook". This novel was translated in more than 40 languages. In 1995 she published a new novel, "Yesterday". Kristóf also wrote a book called "L'analphabète" (in English "The Illiterate") and published in 2004. This is an autobiographical text. It explores her love of reading as a young child, and we travel with her to boarding school, over the border to Austria and then to Switzerland. Forced to leave her country due to the failure of the anti-communist rebellion, she hopes for a better life in Zürich.