17: 00-18: 00 The Volga is buzzing (video chat, projected on site)
Miklós M. Nagy talks to Guzel Jahina
In Guzel Jahina’s first novel (Zulejka opens her eyes) she recounts a story she heard from a Tatar grandmother. The book has been published in more than thirty countries. The children of the Volga were similarly a great success worldwide. Jahina’s stories take place in the Soviet Union and are the result of traumatic events that are reflected in human destinies to this day.
18: 00-19: 00 The reality of coincidences
Anna Mécs talks to Pavla Horákova
In the first novel published by the Czech Pavla Horáková in Hungarian, we simultaneously get involved in scientific explanations - as if we were just dripping into Sheldon Cooper's brain -, into the depths of sarcastic humor, the history of the Czech Republic and the routine of everyday life.
19: 00-20: 00 Live in interesting times!
Tamás Rojik talks to Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason became world famous in one fell swoop when in 2019 he wrote a farewell letter to the first melted Icelandic glacier, Letter to the Future. At the invitation of the PesText Festival, the author is visiting Hungary for the second time, where he presents his fourth volume published in Hungarian, the educational work Time and Water, in which he approaches the topic of environmental catastrophe threatening humanity from a deeply personal but global perspective.
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20: 00-21: 00
Metabubik - a fanzine demonstration of PesText
Bubble-themed texts and illustrations from Portuguese, German, Slovak, Czech, Polish, Estonian and Hungarian authors
The theme of PesText’s 2021 fanzine and literary competition was Bubble. The presentation will be attended by the authors of fanzin, Pavla Horáková, Norbert Nagy, Rebecca Salentin; the organizers of the competition - Norbert Vass and Péter Borbáth - as well as the audience prize of the PesText Bubble competition, Ágnes Erdődi-Juhász and the professional prize winner, Ferenc André, for a video reading.
21: 00-22: 30
Budapest Impró 3.0
Improvisational texts on the A38 Ship
The PesText Festival is organizing its highly successful improvisation program for the third time, to which it invites resident writers (Rebecca Salentin from Germany, Izabela Morska from Poland, Jakub Juhasz from Slovakia) and translators (Adriano Olivarit and Daniel Warmuz) from Hungary. The texts written on the spot will be translated into Hungarian by renowned translators on the same day and read to the audience.
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