“One of the recipients this March of Hungary’s highest award for contributions to the arts, the Kossuth Prize, was the writer Mátyás Sárközi. This was in recognition of his writings, including his depiction of Hungarian intellectual life in the first half of the 20th century through his family chronicles. The
Tibor Várady: Mi történt Écskán? [What Happened in Écska?]1 There is a story that could pass for a sort of erudite joke which yours truly has heard from his friend S. Z., a philosopher, collector of curiosities, and expert on so-called cultural memes (or genes, if you will) – a
In 2013 the new general director of the National Theatre in Budapest stepped onto the bridge of the flagship of Hungary’s theatre scene as an ethnic Hungarian from outside the country’s present-day borders. The journey of Attila Vidnyánszky, born into a family of teachers in the Subcarpathian region, Ukraine, in
A NATION DISMEMBERED Selected Poetry from the Antology edited by Csilla Bertha and Gyula Kodolányi1 Part III SÁNDOR KÁNYÁDI BEHIND GOD’S BACK Isten háta mögött empty mangers empty stallschristmas here no longer callsno use waiting forthe wisemen at the door the creator’s got a lot to docan’t see to all
ATTILA BALÁZS (Novi Sad/Újvidék, 1955), writer, translator, journalist. Author of twelve books of prose. Founder of the cultural magazine Ex Symposion. He worked as editor for the YU Radio-Television; moved to Budapest in 1991. For a time he worked as war correspondent, then as political correspondent for the newspaper Pesti
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