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JAK Translators' Camp 2017 A literary analysis of childhood trauma

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The Hungarian Cultural Centre, London, in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, is organizing an international conference to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the outstanding Hungarian poet, Attila József (1905-1937). Radical novelty

An interview with publisher Gábor Csordás Hungarian literary and theatrical events in the Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna

Twentieth-century Hungarian literature is in the focus of the newest issue of Podium, an Austrian literary almanac. Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Chamisso Prize

In 2006 the Adalbert von Chamisso Prize will be awarded to Zsuzsanna Gahse, a writer of Hungarian origin living in Switzerland. Gahse is also an eminent translator of contemporary Hungarian literature who has translated several novels by Esterházy and Nádas into German. Madness transformed into tranquillity

Attila Bartis: Tranquillity

The novel is indeed smothering, the book is incredibly powerful, like a ramshackle work’s procreator staying his readers with a confident hand. Stay calm! – the Whole will take effect. Lajos Koltai’s film, Fateless is a new EFA-nominee

Hungarian film Fateless is on the list of EFA-applicants according to the September decision of European Film Academy Board. Fateless, a Holocaust-story based on Imre Kertész’s Nobel-Prize winning novel, is the first film directed by Lajos Koltai, world-famous Hungarian director of photography. Time to build the tower of Babel A witness to the 1st century - part two

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An English-language show in Budapest Pécs: European Capital of Culture in 2010

Among seven Hungarian cities (including Budapest) Pécs was chosen to become European Capital of Culture in 2010. The city’s project, entitled a ’City Without Borders’, outlines a cultural policy based on European models and international regional cooperation. Attila József in French

On the centenary of Attila József, a poet ’of the stature of Lorca, Rilke, Trakl, Apollinaire’, the French publishing house Phébus came out with the most complete volume of the poet’s works published in French so far.

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Nowadays things have got to a point where authors who cannot perform something special are not even invited to events anymore. Should writers be performing artists as well, or is it enough if they write good books, poet-novelist Orsolya Karafiáth asks.

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