Nyugat roundtable, UCL, 11 December 2008
Nyugat poster, Mihály Bíró, 1911
We are delighted to announce the roundtable discussion, ‘Hungary’s ‘West’?: Literature and Culture at the Centenary of Nyugat‘, to be held on Thursday 11 December, 3.00-6.00 pm, in the Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, University College London.
On the occasion of the centenary of the literary periodical Nyugat (’West’, 1908-41), scholars, translators and journalists will discuss Hungarian literature, translation and culture, as well as broader notions of ‘the West’, to which students and friends of Hungarian and Central East European Studies are invited to take part.
Texts and visuals from Nyugat will be presented, and discussion will take place in an informal atmosphere. Keynote speakers and discussants include Dr Zsuzsa Varga, University of Glasgow, who will give a paper on the reception of western literature in Nyugat; Len Rix, noted for his popular translations of Antal Szerb and Magda Szabó; Tim Wilkinson, essayist and translator of, among others, Imre Kertész and Péter Zilahy; as well as scholars from UCL-SSEES. The event will be chaired by Dr Daniel Abondolo, Senior Lecturer in Hungarian Literature at SSEES, and is convened by Dr Gwen Jones and Eszter Tarsoly.
The poster comes from the National Széchenyi Library’s Nyugat centenary website.
December 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
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