Person

Görög-Karády, Veronika

1935–2023

Veronika Görög-Karády was educated in Hungary before leaving for France in 1956. She completed her studies at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in anthropology with a dissertation on the image of racial groups in African oral literature. From 1968 till 2001 she was a research fellow of the French CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research) as a specialist of the comparative study of folk tales, more generally of traditional oral art. Since 1980 she has been engaged in investigations on Gypsy oral narratives in Hungary