The Petőfi Cultural Agency has launched a new literary journal entitled The Continental Literary Magazine. The primary aim of the quarterly is to bring Hungarian and, more broadly, Central European literature to the United States.

I don't know about you, but I have never thought of books and reading as a business. Reading means moments of peace and quiet, a time for reflection, a time to let your imagination soar, to nestle into an armchair, take refuge from the world, and bury yourself in the pages of a book.

On 25 October 2021, literary translator Len Rix was awarded the Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit at the Embassy of Hungary in London. Rix has translated major classics of Hungarian literature into English, including Antal Szerb’s novel Utas és holdvilág, or Journey by Moonlight, and Magda Szabó’s novel Az ajtó, or The Door.

Or how a book fair is born of grotesque masks

The Petőfi Cultural Agency, which strives to foster interest in Hungarian literature abroad, has included the best Hungarian crime and graphic novels of the past decade in its English-language publication series, which won two prestigious prizes in the field of advertising last year.

A pályázatra azon hazai szerzők és fordítók jelentkezését vártuk, akik meghívást kaptak valamilyen rangos külföldi rendezvényre, könyvbemutatóra, fesztiválra.