Man Booker International Prize to Hungarian writer Krasznahorkai and his translators Szirtes and Mulzet

May 23, 2015 | Hungary, United Kingdom

Tags: Hungary, United KingdomThe Man Booker International Prize has been awarded, in a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum, to the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, the first non-anglophone author to win since Ismail Kadaré in 2005. The prize, worth...

Hungarian literary translators’ weekend follows German model

May 20, 2015 | Hungary

Tags: HungaryThe Association of Hungarian Literary Translators (MEGY) organized its sixth annual weekend getaway at a hotel in the picturesque Pilis hills, as close to Budapest as to escape its bustle. Besides professional literary translators, beginners and students...

Translators featured at 22nd Budapest Book Festival

Apr 29, 2015 | Hungary

Tags: HungaryLiterary translators took a front seat at this year’s International Book Festival in Budapest, that took place from 23 to 26 April, as the book industry’s four-day festivities unfolded for the 22nd year running, in the spacious grounds of Millenáris Park...

Serb literary translation award initiated in Balatonfüred (Hungary)

Jun 12, 2014 | Hungary, Serbia

Tags: Hungary, SerbiaOn 7 June 2014, during the traditional Garden Party at the Hungarian Translators’ House, Balatonfüred’s mayor István Bóka announced the launch of a new translators’ scholarship for Serbian literary translators under 35 whose translation or essay...

Call for application: Visegrad Literary Residency Programme Autumn 2014

Feb 10, 2014 | Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

Tags: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, SlovakiaThe Visegrad Literary Residency Programme, established 2012 by the International Visegrad Fund, provides for a series of residency stays and literary events open to writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, essayists,...