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Best Translated Book of 2008

Rochester University’s online magazine of literature in translation, Three Percent, is awarding a prize for the Best Translated Book of 2008. Of the 25 works on the longlist, which includes novels by Marcel Proust, José Saramago, Halldór Laxness, Stefan Zweig and Roberto Bolaño, three are translations from Hungarian, by: Ferenc Karinthy (1921-92), Metropole, translated by George [...]

Links

Two new links have been added to the Links page, which are worth mentioning here:

Hogymondom.hu, a dictionary of contemporary slang to which readers can contribute. Lots of fun, expect profanity.
Hungarian Spectrum, an excellent English-language blog on current affairs, written by Éva Balogh, which features intelligent and insightful posts on politics, media and history.