Introduction 

Zita Muranyi (1982) is a Hungarian writer and poet. She graduated from the University of Szeged with a degree in communication. Her first novel, entitled Mirrorpalace (Tükörpalota) was published in 2003, and she received the Sandor Bródy Prize in 2004. They awarded this prize to the best debut authors. She had three books of poems and three novels published in Hungarian. OnMr. Darcy's sofa is her first novel in English.

Several of her children's stories have been published on Hungarian websites and three of them in a book, and the feedback is that they are very well-liked and have a high viewership. Her children's poems published in anthologies, have also been used in recitation competitions, and one of them has become part of the Reformed curriculum.