Bázis – Hungarian Association of Literature and Arts in Slovakia is an association for autunomous, independent literature, art and science in Slovakia.

Summer has traditionally been the time I spend on a “different kind” of work. Things I have no time for during the rest of the year, or that simply come with the season. This summer, however, feels a little different too, as I find myself at a crossroads. I’m saying goodbye to teaching, though I […]

The fact that a statue makes music is not all that surprising. Even the Greeks recorded that the Egyptian statue of Memnon began to “sing” in a metallic tone at the first rays of the desert sun. The mortal son of the goddess of Dawn thus sang verses to his mother. Scientists have also found […]

We are pleased to announce the publication of Hungarian Literature as World Literature by Bloomsbury. The volume is edited by Péter Hajdu and Zoltán Z. Varga. The collection also includes chapters by Magdolna Balogh, Dávid Szolláth, Zoltán Csehy, and Sarolta Deczki, all members of the Bázis Literary and Artistic Association. For more information: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/hungarian-literature-as-world-literature-9781501393136/.

This week I’m writing a review of Kati Havran’s poetry collection Millióéves krátereket simogatsz (You Caress Million-Year-Old Craters) for Irodalmi Szemle (Literary Review). Starting next year, the journal will feature a joint review column by my father, Zoltán Csehy, and me, in which we will publish our reviews alternately. Kati Havran’s debut collection immediately captivated […]

Thank you for the question. The life paths of our region’s first female doctor of medicine, Vilma Hugonnai, and the painter of Indian-Hungarian identity/origin, Amrita Sher-Gil. Through these life paths, I try to examine the constructions of modern female identity, cultural mediation and memory, identity/construction changes, and their interpretation possibilities. My reflection focuses on those […]

Over the coming weeks, I have several exhibitions opening or currently in progress, which will keep me busy all the summer. Kamiokande – The Queen of the Night is, perhaps, best described as simultaneously a neutrino detector, a Mozart opera, and an oracle fountain foretelling the extinction. It will be installed at the Pohoda Festival […]

I have never expected this summer to be so thrilling. My film No big deal was selected and screened at Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival, and now it has been invited to Veszprém-Balaton Filmpiknik. What is there to do with an already finished film? Based on the organizers’ requests, I now have to […]

Vica Kerekes was the ambassador of literature at the Book Spa International Literary Festival in Mariánské Lázně, where she presented, among other works, prose by László Krasznahorkai and poetry by Zoltán Németh in translation by Jitka Rožňová. Further information is available on the Reflex website.

Mónika Dánél‘s study has been published about Ádám Bodor’s Imaginary Worlds in Hungarian Literature Online. Part 1: https://hlo.hu/zoom/monika-danel-born-in-translation-i.html Part 2: https://hlo.hu/zoom/born-in-translation-ii.html Part 3: https://hlo.hu/zoom/born-in-translation-iii.html

The Department of Hungarian Studies at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures of the University of Warsaw is organizing a conference titled “Expanding Horizons: Krasznahorkai and World Literature,” to be held in Warsaw on November 19–20, 2026.  Please submit your application by May 31, 2026, at the latest, to krasznahorkaiuw@gmail.com, including: the presenter’s name, […]

The Hungarian thaw: how a flood swept away the fear. An article by Anna Menyhért in the journal of the University of Turin: https://www.otto.unito.it/it/articoli/hungarian-thaw-how-flood-swept-away-fear.

Right now, I’m genuinely celebrating. I’ve just received the official notification that my application for a grant from the Minority Culture Fund has been approved, which means that this year my short story collection Felemás will be published by Abacus+ Publishing. The plan is to present it already at the beginning of October at the […]

At the university, we are now approaching the end of the semester, and the BA and MA thesis season is in full swing, so my upcoming week will primarily focus on closing out the semester and reviewing and evaluating seminar papers and theses. Of course, I also hope to have time for other tasks that […]

I’ve recently started working on my new translation project, one that I can call a true curiosity, an academic delicacy: Adam Bžoch’s Konverzácia a európska literatúra (Conversation and European Literature). For my colleagues concerned with literary research, the author needs no introduction:  a well-known figure of Slovak academic and cultural life, Adam Bžoch is a […]