Join us for an evening with young Hungarian authors Ferencz Mónika, Zilahi Anna and Potozky László to learn about trends, workshops and highlights of the contemporary literary scene in Hungary. Representing a diverse background from poetry to prose, visual arts to translation, Cluj to Vienna, together with critic Melinda Vásári and translators Viktória Kellermann and Michalina Oziembłowska they'll explore the many ways you can talk about contemporary literature at this very first stop of their literary tour of Poland.

MÓNIKA FERENCZ was born in March 1991 in Budapest. She's been publishing poems in different journals since 2013, and since 2015, translations, as well. After receiving the Mihály Babits Translators’ Grant in spring 2016, she participated in literary translation workshops organized by the Petőfi Literary Museum in
Budapest (2016) and the Association of Young Writers (FISZ, 2017). Her first volume of poetry, Hátam mögött dél, was published in spring 2017.

ANNA ZILAHI (1990) poet, writer, media artist. She studied in Budapest, Paris and Vienna before graduating from the Corvinus University of Budapest, and is currently studying transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her first volume of poetry, A bálna nem motívum, was published in April 2017 by Magvető. She received the writers‘ grant of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary in 2017.

LÁSZLÓ POTOZKY, born in 1988 in Csíkszereda (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania), currently lives in Budapest. Having studied communications, journalism, drama and creative writing, he has been an author of the Magvető Publishing since 2013. He was awarded a Pál Békés Prize for his novel Éles. His new novel, Égéstermék, was published in October, 2017.

Find out more about the projects and its participants at Hungarian Contemporaries - a literary tour of Poland