In Memory of M./M. emlékére
“Am I a coward? I commune with death every day./ I’m more afraid of people….” Poem of the Week (April 13), by Zsuzsa Takács, translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Three Deaths
“Olaszliszka reaches back to the very roots of Western theatrical tradition to depict a very modern tragedy.” Ottilie Mulzet reviews Gábor Maté’s production of Szilárd Borbély’s play in verse.
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Double Inundations
“The happy hours pass quickly by, the bitter/ ones pass slowly. Still, they are the same.” Poem of the Week (February 17), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
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The Betrothed
“they seldom gave each other pleasure/and in vain they learnt patience and goodwill,/ in vain they taught their bodies…” Poem of the Week (September 30), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Author of the Month: Zsolt Láng
“It takes me six years to write a novel and quite possibly it will end up in the litter bin once it is finished.” Zsolt Láng, Author of the Month for July, talks to fiction editor Maliha Iftekhar.
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“Who am I to praise you? When I was on my way to you the train went up in flames…” Story of the Week (August 8), by Zsuzsa Selyem. Translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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The Wines of the Shakespeare Estate
“In wine there is truth…” Zsolt Láng’s ‘short story written in the form of wine labels’, translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Radnóti in Flames
Ottilie Mulzet reports from Hungary, where far-right extremists are burning the poems of Miklós Radnóti.
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Poet of the Month: Ãgnes Lehóczky
Audrey Ryback talks to Poet of the Month Ãgnes Lehóczky about the challenges of writing in two languages, and the difficulties of defining poetry.
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‘This gnaws away at my heart’: Szilárd Borbély’s The Dispossessed
A ‘devastating’ exploration of poverty by one of Hungary’s finest writers, reviewed by Ottilie Mulzet.
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