Hungarian Authors Receive Serbian Literary Awards in Belgrade

This year’s 66th International Belgrade Book Fair continued to present and promote Hungarian literature, writes Magyar Nemzet. New Hungarian prose and lyrical works were published by the Belgrade-based publishing house ALMA, and several Hungarian fiction authors received Serbian literary awards.

One of the most important literary events in the Central European region, the International Belgrade Book Fair (Sajam Knijga), was launched almost seven decades ago, and aims to help publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, book distributors, and various multimedia companies to establish contacts, exchange experiences, do business, and initiate other forms of business and cultural cooperation.

The book fair, held between October 21 and 29, was attended by all the major regional and Serbian publishers who are launching their books during this period.

In the last few years, Hungary and various actors in Hungarian literature have built up increasingly good relations with the Serbian publishing and literary scene, as well as with book publishers.

Nothing is better proof of this than the series of classical and contemporary Hungarian literature, launched in 2022, by the Belgrade publishing house ALMA.

It is particularly gratifying that thanks to the library support program of the Serbian Ministry of Culture, the series will be distributed to the most important school, university, and public libraries in Serbia.

Prizes were also awarded to Serbian and Hungarian poets at the book fair. Milutin Đuričković, Serbian writer, journalist, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Serbian Literary Guild, honored the poetry of Gyula Hodossy, Loránd Pethő, Gábor István Ördög, and Marian Rodica. Hodossy was awarded the Literary Prize of the Asoglas Publishing House in the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for his significant contribution to Hungarian-Serbian cultural cooperation and to the quality of contemporary Hungarian literature. Loránd Pethő and Gábor István Ördög received prizes for their poems translated into Serbian, which will soon be followed by a volume of poetry in Serbian. Finally, the ART Danubius Prizes were awarded by Attila F. Balázs to Serbian writers and poets who have worked to promote Hungarian-Serbian literary relations in recent years.

Via Magyar Nemzet, Featured image via Instagram/beogradski_sajam_knjiga