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Events, news on Hungarian literature |
Peter Nadas's article in the Wall Street Journal on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. "Prayer," István Örkény's 1966 story about the Hungarian Revolution is translated into English for the first time by Mia Nadasi and published in the September 1, 2006 issue of The Times Literary Supplement (London). In the introduction, the TLS outlines the life and career of István Örkény (1912-79), who was banned from publishing for several years following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and his later international fame as a creator of the absurd and the grotesque. Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize by the City of Berlin. Named for Berlin's former mayor, the prize is the German capital's highest award, previously given to such luminaries as Claudio Abbado, the former music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. At the presentation ceremony Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit characterized the Hungarian writer as a "great European and great Berliner," alluding to the fact that Kertész has been spending most of his time in recent years in Berlin. Mayor Wowereit also expressed his gratitude to those Hungarian dissidents, naming György Konrád and Imre Kertész, whose work paved the way to the collapse of communism and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. |
