15: 00-16: 00 Chaos in Venezuela (online video chat)
Karina Sainz Borgó talks to Mercedesz Kutasy
Karina Sainz Borgo's first novel, Megy le a nap in Caracas, has been published in more than twenty languages and is published in Hungary by Jelenkor Kiadó. This video chat reveals what it is like when citizens in an anarchy country turn more and more against each other.
16: 00–17: 00 Wives
Rumena Bužarovska talks to Noémi Kiss
Rumena Bužarovska is a young Macedonian author, translator in addition to writing, associate professor of American literature, editor of several literary journals, and organizer of women's storytelling evenings. Her volume of short stories, My Husband, contains eleven longer or shorter stories: about self-esteem, vanity, hypocrisy. Despite the title, however, the volume is not about husbands, but rather about wives.
17: 00-18: 00 Belgrade disappointments
Emese Rajsli talks to Igor Marojević
Igor Marojević's stories take place in a familiar and exotic milieu and time that is both familiar to the Hungarian reader: in the decline of the (post) secretist Yugoslavia, during the South Slavic wars, in the two thousand years he can only mimic calm and normalization. The short stories in Belgrade's Chicks accidentally don't mean "what does a woman need?" to offer satisfactory answers to this question: on the one hand, this is not really possible, and on the other hand, the texts remove any real needs at the edge of the margin.
17: 00-18.30 MISZJE reception hours
At this open reception hour at MISZJ, our staff will answer any copyright questions you may have. The organizer of the festival, the Hungarian Literary Copyright Protection and Management Association (MISZJE), introduces itself to PesText. During the reception hour, our employees provide information on the operation of the rights manager and answer questions related to the payment of royalties. In copyright issues, the lawyer of the association helps authors, translators, editors, or our current and future rightholders to find their way. Contact them with confidence!
18: 00-19: 00 Without borders in the landscapes of art
Ildikó Lipták talks to Afonso Cruz
Afonso Cruz is a versatile and incredibly prolific talent: writer, illustrator, musician. He plays guitar, banjo, ukulele and, if necessary, sings in a band called The Soaked Lamb, which plays bluesy, swing songs. Several of his volumes have already been published in Hungarian, most recently the Timeless Diary at Csimota Publishing House.
19: 00-20: 00 Have we arrived in the dark?
Balázs Farkas talks to Jacek Dukaj
Critics often write about Jacek Dukaj that there are more thoughts in one short story than in the entire oeuvre of many other writers. Whether this is true will be revealed at the PesText Festival (as well). The Polish sci-fi author's fourth volume, Arriving in the Dark, was published in Hungarian, following which Netflix created a series.
20: 00-21: 00 Welcome to Budapest!
Attila Balázs Attila Dragan talks to Velikić
According to his own admission, Dragan Velikić's relationship with Budapest has a very long history, and returning to the city is always a kind of holiday. According to a Hungarian critic, he does not write about the city as a foreign observer, but "as someone who explores the essential features of the city." His books have been translated into Hungarian for thirty years, most recently with the publication of Nyomolvasó at Geopen Publishing.
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