(MTI) - "The festival was a success for both the profession and the public," he said. Peter Laszlo Zentai, who heads the Hungarian Publishers' and Booksellers' Association, said that all the other 26 member states of the European Union had accepted invitations and had delegated two or even three writers to the festival, and their works had appeared in Hungarian translations, he said.
The guest of honour of the festival was world-renowned Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist.
Visitors were offered a variety of 300 programmes, including a show of students putting up the costumes of their favourite literary heroes or heroines and performing parts of the literary works concerned, said Zentai.
