Péter Nádas

Portrait

"I have needed many coincidences and the passing of years to understand what tragic consequences it can have if we are not able to accept the rules of Nature, and in particular the mysteriousness of human beings."

Imre Kertész

Portrait

Imre Kertész is the first - and to this day only - Hungarian Nobel-prize laureate in literature, and, for this reason, probably one of the most talked about Hungarian writers in recent years.

"I was worried I might have to turn serious"

An interview with Péter Esterházy

"I think you have to be good at forgetting - it is part of normal life. Writers, on the other hand, have a different job description, if any. A writer cannot really afford to forget in the way which is necessary for other people for a healthy life. This makes life slightly more difficult, but it is our own fault - nobody asked us to be writers. "

László Krasznahorkai

Portrait

László Krasznahorkai's books contain a deeper knowledge about the fine structure of the ever darkening world and its laws that have been invalidated in our modern world.

The coolness of freedom

An interview with Péter Nádas

"I have a more intense relationship with people than with the objects of nature or sentences or works of art. Life is always primary; everything else is feedback."