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The Transylvanian Messenger Publishing House focuses on young writers and writers discovered in talent searches. Director Dénes János Orbán said one of this year's most important literary events will be the publication of Kálmán Nagy's reworking of the Kalevala for children. The company will also publish selected and new poems by Endre Wellmann Farkas. The young Transylvanian authors Bálint Dobai, Lorand Pethő and Melinda Varga will be published in the Detached Post series which already includes 50 volumes.
The Pallas-Akadémia Publishing House of Miercurea Ciuc focuses on fiction but also places emphasis on tourism and fine arts publications, director József Tőzsér said. It will launch a new series called Life Signs presenting the life work of artists over 70. The first volume will present the work of painter András Gaál, to be followed by volumes showing the art of Csilla Kákonyi and Árpád Márton.
"A talented writer of fiction, Angi Máté, will be presented in 2009 and the novella Mamó will certainly be one of the literary sensations of the year," said András Visky, director of the Koinónia Publishing House of Cluj. Hungarian translations of Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds and Mihail Sebastian's Diary 1935-1944 will also be published by Koinónia.
Director of Kriterion Publishing House Gyula H. Szabó said this year's planned publications include a volume of studies collected from the writings of Lajos Kelemen and an extended edition of John Paget's work on Hungary and Transylvania in the Téka series.
Director of Polis Publishing House Gyula Dávid said it will put out a new and comprehensive collection of works by the poet Jeno Dsida and a smaller collection of works by the poet Sándor Reményik.
The Pro-Print Publishing House of Miercurea Ciuc considers its main task to issue publications about the ethnic Hungarian minority in Transylvania. Director Endre Burus said existing series, such as The Library of the Hungarian Minority and Sources on the History of Hungarians in Romania, will be expanded. Also, another volume will be published in the complete works of Rózsa Ignácz.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
