Sándor Márai compared the sea to a mother’s womb

Hungarian writer and thinker Sándor Márai spend a huge part of his life in exile, partly in Italy. Soon we can learn more about those years.

Ferenc Szijj and the little man lost in the intricate system

Humour, as Ferenc Szijj does it, offers a predominantly absurd and grotesque quality and an ironic tone, similar to István Örkény.

Edina Szvoren: If I could play Purcell on peppers filled with water…

Edina Szvoren is a master of contemporary Hungarian short stories and one of the most original voices in Hungary.

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