"Who will protect us from ourselves if letters and words abandon us, if sentences freeze into unspeakability and language shatters into fragments?" It was a strikingly dark question with which author András Visky opened the 31st Budapest International Book Festival on Thursday, but it set the tone for four days devoted to the defense of […]
The 97th Budapest Book Week will feature 540 newly published books, 204 stalls and 104 programs between June 11-14 in downtown Budapest, in Vörösmarty Square, Vigadó Square and the Danube Corso, organizers told a press conference on Thursday. "The event will be opened by David Szalay, the English writer of Hungarian descent who won the […]
