There is no gap in interest for different generations of contemporary Hungarian writers and poets, and new works are published all the time, Méhes said on the occasion of the Buch Wien 2011 international book fair.
There is no Hungarian exhibitor at the four-day book fair that opened on Thursday, but several Hungarian authors are holding readings. The writer and historian György Dalos will present his book ?Good-bye Comrades? in the Literature from the Neighbourhood section. New texts by winners of the Bank Austria Literaris scholarship will also be presented, including the Hungarian poet Judit Ágnes Kiss.
The Collegium Hungaricum helped organise a roundtable discussion and public reading dubbed Danube Art Links ? The Danube and Literature that will be held at the fair on Saturday. On the following day, the German publications of László Garaczi?s The Confessions of a Lemur and Krisztina Tóth?s Barcode will be launched.
Márton said Saturday?s literary event was part of the Danube Cluster, a cultural and tourism cooperation initiated by the Collegium Hungaricum together with KulturKontakt Austria and the Romanian cultural institute in Vienna.
Six authors from six countries will read work connected to the Danube at the event. Hungary will be represented by the writer László Márton.
The countries involved in the event want to create a Danube Forum for next year?s Buch Wien and could even set up a joint stand, Méhes said.
In addition to well known contemporary Hungarian authors, such as Péter Esterházy and Péter Nádas, there is also some interest in revivals of Hungarian classics, he said, adding that Vienna?s Zsolnay Verlag planned to publish the writings of Miklós Bánffy.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
