The "groves" - collections of books surrounded by comfortable chairs - can be found in Budapest's Holdudvar, on Margaret Island, and near the Hütte Café on Szabadság Square between June 20 and September 6.
Managing director of Hungarofest Rita Rubovszky said it was high time to take reading and literature out of the stuffy indoors and into nature. It is important to think of readers as active participants not as passive consumers, she added.
Éva Lauter, director of one of the project's coordinators, the Balassi Institute, said "we consider our mother tongue a natural asset and almost fail to notice what an important role it plays in our lives. It is a common treasure that links us all."
Thanks to the involvement of litera.hu, several authors will visit the groves to read from their work, including Lajos Nagy Parti, László Garaczi, Pál Závada, Krisztián Grecsó, drMáriás and László Darvai.
Litera.hu editor-in-chief Zoltán Kőrösi said the magazine was trying to expand the initiative so young people would not have to resort to reading in fast-food restaurants.
Visit the Reading Grove website
Author: Éva Kelemen / Photo: Dániel Kováts
