New Release: The Song of the Cosmos – Selected Poems of Attila József

Three poems by Katalin Szlukovényi in Dániel Dányi's translation.

A story of coming out, family, and masculinity, by Hungarian writer and poet András Gerevich, in Cassidy Baker's translation. This story was featured in the Hungarian collection titled The Taste of Motherland in My Mouth, and published in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Budapest Pride.

While there is plenty of well-deserved praise for László Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize in Literature from the expected outlets, the Hungarian people have found countless creative ways to show their support and respect for the author, from guerilla posters to the Nobel Mobile to art exhibitions, and more.

Hungarian author Ferenc Barnás has won this year's prestigious Miklós Mészöly prize, and also has a new release in English from Seagull Books – Other Death in Owen Good's translation.

The latest work from war correspondent and journalist Sándor Jászberényi, a writer whose work is "brutal but with heart," is now available in English as a Kindle edition from the author's brand-new press: Cosmopolit Publishing.

'I very much agree that an excellent novel should capture a serious fact in a light and witty manner: in the 2020s, peace in Hungary means the destruction of an independent country and shameless support for the aggressor.' – A review by Sándor Radnóti of the first two novels in Péter Bognár's anti-detective novel trilogy.

László Krasznahorkai gave his Nobel laureate's lecture on 7 December, and accepted his Nobel Prize on 10 December. A butterfly has also been named after him.

Tea Publishing House is an independent publisher best known for children's literature, popular psychology, social issues, and parenting books, as well as fiction titles including Ákos Kele Fodor's Honti Hantok ('The Burial Mounds of Hont'). Publishing director, Aliz Kinter, answers Hanna Zelma Horányi's questions.

'A multifunctional style dictator, a hedonistic register hunter, and if you're not careful, fainter-hearted readers, he'll play you like a fiddle.' – An introduction to our latest author in focus, the Hungarian poet, novelist and playwright Péter Bognár.

This month marks 100 years since the birth of Hungarian director Károly Makk, and so we continue our special feature for the Hungarian Starter Pack with Hanna Zelma Horányi's review of István Örkény's novel Cat's Play, and Makk's subsequent 1972 film adaption.

Poet Júlia Kustos has been announced the winner of this year’s Péter Horváth Literary Scholarship, now in its thirteenth year. The scholarship, with a value of €7000, aims to support the most talented early-career authors who are already publishing regularly and have released a new volume in the current year, and who are under the age of 35.

An autumn awards ceremony, a talk on translating Krasznahorkai, and teriyaki chicken in a cup. See what poet, writer, and translator George Szirtes is getting up to as of late!

Hungarian-American writer and translator and frequent HLO contributor Timea Sipos has been awarded the PEN/Heim Grant to support the translation of Krisztián Marton's debut autobiographical novel Crybaby. 

What does a troll think about Nietzsche? What do an orc and a vegetable garden chat about? What are the spiritual practices of elves? Hungarian author Imre Bartók writes about these and other similarly pressing questions in a YA novel that opens in the midst an apocalypse. Review by Flóra Petri.

Leányvállalat is the independent publisher of such titles as These Roma Are Queer, The Taste of Motherland in My Mouth and Crybaby. Founder, Geraldine Molnár, answers Hanna Zelma Horányi's questions about the publisher's beginnings, its focus on social justice, and the challenges of running a small publisher in Hungary today.

"From on his knees behind a pile of newspapers, Oilvér Végh peered at the woman who stood in the middle of his living room ... The woman had come, quite innocently, to help him; she was not to blame that he did not require help." – The interior world of Olivér Végh, a doggedly stubborn, retired antique restorer, is turned inside out when Kinga Berka arrives at his door, in this short story by Budapest-based writer Kerry Tyrrell.

This year’s Milán Füst Prizes were awarded on November 20 at the Petőfi Literary Museum. Krisztina Tóth and Gábor Vida received the Milán Füst Prize for Prose and Ottilie Mulzet the Milán Füst Grand Prize for Translation. The Milán Füst Translation Grants were also awarded.

A film so remarkably brave, one can hardly believe that it was allowed to exist – for our next installment of the Starter Pack, Hanna Zelma Horányi revisits the 1982 film, Another Way, by director Károly Makk. Based on a novella by writer Erzsébet Galgóczi, Another Way is a radical film about unflinching queer love in the uncompromising surveillance state of fifties Hungary.