Literary Conference Takes Place in Budapest

This Friday, writers, poets, and literary scholars from Central and Eastern Europe will be gathering at the Hungarian Writers' Association in Budapest for an international conference. The subject of the conference is literature before and after 1989 in Budapest.

For two days, guests from Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary will discuss literature in the context of the democratic changes around the year of 1989 when Hungary was first released from the grip of Soviet rule. Topics discussed will include the roles of authors and their national organizations, as well as the situation of minority literature in Europe.

Czech author Bohumil Dolezal, Polish poet Bohdan Zadura, Polish historian and critic Jerzy Snopek, and Romanian editor and poet Mircea Dinescu are among those set to speak at the conference.